Canada ordered the dispersal of Japanese Canadians from British Columbia in 1945. Minoru's father could either be deported with his family to Japan, a country barely remembered, or be relocated to the Prairie provinces, where he was unlikely to be accepted. Michael Fukushima directs and animates the film. He co-narrates with his father. Archival photos help tell the story.

The bombing of the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, by a nation he knew only by name, thrust nine-year-old Minoru Fukushima into a world of racism so malevolent he would be forced to leave Canada, the land of his birth. Like thousands of other Japanese Canadians, Minoru and his family were branded as an enemy of Canada, dispatched to internment camps in the interior of British Columbia, and finally deported to Japan. Directed by Michael Fukushima, Minoru's son, the film artfully combines classical animation with archival material. The memories of the father are interspersed with the voice of the son, weaving a tale of suffering and survival, of a birthright lost and recovered.