When Rainbow is tasked with a school assignment that requires her to trace her roots, she learns that history is more complicated for her mom's side of the family than it is for her dad's.
Paul and Alicia encourage sex-positive conversations with Bow until she invites her crush over to their house; Johan and Alvin look at advertisements, magazines and even the constellations to see if they can see breasts.
After a teacher tells Rainbow to make sure her hair is "neat" for picture day, she becomes self-conscious and begins a complicated relationship with her hair; Johan and Santamonica struggle with their own hair identity.
Alicia and Paul strive to maintain their winter solstice traditions from the commune, but their parents want to have a more traditional Christmas with the kids; Alicia's dad competes with Harrison to be the kids' favorite grandad.
Rainbow wants to battle stereotypes at school after she joins the track team and feels like her friends only see her skin color; Santamonica tries to be cool enough to hang out with Rainbow's friends.
Alicia treats herself to an expensive purse, but Paul finds out and demands that she return it; Bow bribes Alicia to buy her a fancy backpack so she can impress her friends at school.
Paul wants to become better friends with Denise so he uses his white privilege to help her out with her errands; Rainbow, Jonah and Santi sell chocolate bars for their school fundraiser.
The popular girls at school ask Rainbow to join their Halloween costume as Tootie from "The Facts of Life"; Rainbow sees an opportunity to fit in, but Denise thinks differently; Alicia doesn't want the kids to go trick-or-treating.
Bow has to consider the social impact of her date choice for her first school dance; Johan discovers his love of fashion; Santamonica spends some time with Harrison.
Rainbow's passion for science deflates when her peers convince her that science isn't cool; Harrison works to mold a testimony from Denise; Santamonica tries to steal the spotlight back after Johan suffers an injury.