In 1882, the United States Congress passed the Prohibition of the importation of Chinese Labor Act, which prohibited the importation of Chinese workers before 1943 in order to maintain social stability. For decades from then to 1943, American society has been quite excluded from Chinese. Although the repeal of the Prohibition of Labor importation from China Act of 1943 stipulated that Chinese residents could emigrate to the United States, the ban still affected Chinese women until 1947. The story is set from 1924 to 1947, during which a large number of male Chinese studying in the United States were unable to apply for their families to go to the United States. In 1945, the United States Congress passed the wartime Brides Act, which allowed 118000 spouses and children of American military personnel to emigrate to the United States. Chinese Ben Loy (Wang Shengde), who joined the US military, returned to his hometown after the war to marry Mei Oi and brought him back to the United States. In Chinatown, Ben Loy got a job as a restaurant manager, but because of his busy work and his parents' constant pressure to carry on the family line, he became more and more powerless in his sexual life, which eventually led Mei Oi to hook up with the gangster figure Ah Song (John Tsang). Wherever the Chinese go.
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