In 1936, Jack McGurn arrives in Los Angeles and takes a job at a movie theater in Little Tokyo. He falls for the boss's daughter, Lily Kawamura, but their love is forbidden when her father discovers their relationship. They escape to Seattle, only to face a new challenge when the war breaks out and Japanese immigrants are forced into internment camps.
Come See the Paradise
The tumultuous love story between an Irish-American man and a Japanese-American woman is shattered when the Pearl Harbor attacks alter their lives irreparably, compelling the woman to confront the harsh realities of being interned in a prison camp due to her ethnicity.