خلاصه داستان : "جک مک گارن" در سال 1936 به لس آنجلس می رود. او در یک سالن نمایش مشغول بکار شده و عاشق دختر رئیسش "لیلی کاوامورا" می شود. اما او توسط پدر دختر اخراج شده و به همراه او به سیاتل فرار می کند...

In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a Japanese-American man. Jack falls for the owner's daughter, Lily, but they are forced to elope to Seattle when her father forbids the relationship. The couple marry and have a daughter, but when World War II breaks out, Jack is powerless to stop his new family's forced internment.