A fact based drama recounting the dark chapter of the American concentration camp, after the Pearl Harbor attack of Dec. 7, 1941, focuses on the Wakatsukis, a Japanese-American family living in Santa Monica, California in the early 1940s. Thousands of American citizens of Japanese descent, along with the Wakatsukis are shipped to the internment camp of Manzanar in California. This is a portrayal of their sufferings.

Study guide produced by California Teachers Association, c2003. Videorecording of the TV movie, telecast March 11, 1976. Based on the autobiographical book co-written by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston.