A cinema worker falls in love with his Japanese boss's daughter in the 1930s, and they run away together to get married. When America enters the Second World War, she is sent to an internment camp while he is drafted into the army - but he goes AWOL to find out where she is being held. Alan Parker's drama, with Dennis Quaid and Tamlyn Tomita.

In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a Japanese-American man. Jack falls for the owner's daughter, Lily, but they are forced to elope to Seattle when her father forbids the relationship. The couple marry and have a daughter, but when World War II breaks out, Jack is powerless to stop his new family's forced internment.