Instead of leading them to the Far East to a remote village in China, it took them to the deep south into the small town of Cleveland in the Mississippi Delta.
[2] The TV broadcast premiere on May 4, 2021, was on PBS via World Channel's program America ReFramed.
[3] Baldwin Chiu and brother, Edwin, begin with the assumption that they are first generation Chinese Americans living in San Francisco.
[4] Looming large in the documentary is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which directly impacted Chiu's family.
Their stories of friendship and alliances contrast the Asian-Black conflicts of the 1992 Los Angeles riots.