Carrying a photograph of the man she is to marry but has yet to meet, young Hana Omiya arrives in San Francisco in 1917, one of several hundred Japanese "picture brides" whose arranged marriages brought them to America.
Seeking a new life in nineteenth-century California with his samurai father, a young Japanese finds it difficult to adjust to the idea of being a farmer and not a samurai.
A group of Japanese colonists try to farm an arid stretch of California in 1869. After the Pearl Harbor attack an eleven-year-old Japanese-American girl and her family are forced to go to an aliens camp in Utah.
