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After a major bust in 1988, DEA agents are in a race against time to find out who’s behind a scheme to import millions of dollars worth of heroin to the US. They stumble upon some unlikely suspects: young mothers like Tina Wong, who were paid to accept packages in the mail. These women will have to make a choice between protecting or betraying their friends. Lurking behind it all: the history of American Chinatowns, which developed to protect immigrants from a hostile society.
For more, check out:
Ellen Wu’s The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority.
Michael Luo’s Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.
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