A sweeping saga of selfless love against the backdrop of war, racism, family secrets, and survival. In the late 1930s, as shadows of the fascist regime gather over Poland, the parents of young Alma send her to an aunt and uncle in San Francisco. While Europe burns in the flames of war, the girl grows up in safety and meets Ichimei, a quiet, shy gardener’s son. The children fall in love with each other, but after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese people are expelled from America. Over the following years the lovers meet again and again—but they are doomed to hide their feelings for life… Seventy years later, an aging Alma tells of her life, and before us unfolds the story of an entire era and the fate of one forbidden love—love that, against everything, blossomed amid the changes shaking America.