Watsonville, California, 1930. Sixteen-year-old Francisco barely ekes out a living picking apples. As he spends what little he earns at dance halls and faces increasing violence from white men in town, Francisco wonders if he should have never left the Philippines. Stockton, California, 1965. Emil works hard and keeps his head down, he refuses to be like his unreliable labor organizer father, Francisco. Denver, Colorado, 1983. Chris is determined to prove that his overbearing father, Emil, can't control him. But an assignment on family roots gives him a hunger to know more about his Filipino history, even if his father dismisses his interest as un-American and unimportant. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2020. Enzo struggles with anxiety as a global pandemic breaks out and his abrasive grandfather moves in.
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