The drama traced two Asian-American families through a century of struggles: a Chinese family whose immigrant founder travels across the Pacific to dynamite mountain slopes and lay railway tracks, and a Japanese family who were treated like prisoners of war and placed in an internment camp during World War II.
這齣戲藉由兩個亞裔家庭，回溯百年前先祖的辛酸歷程，一個是來自中國的苦力，遠渡重洋來此炸山築鐵路；另一個是日本移民家庭，因世界大戰，竟被美國政府強迫隔離在集中營，忍受如戰俘般的對待。