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- Rob Baskin, a businessman who travels to Lake Tahoe in order to spread the ashes of his late mother, meets Ann Field, a woman who'll change his life forever.
- Kenneth Handa, a 12 year old bi-racial boy, has been imprisoned for three years at the Manzanar Relocation Center -- a World War II concentration camp for Japanese Americans. After his father's death, he decides to escape to find his Caucasian mother who he believes to be living in Los Angeles. When Ken sneaks aboard a delivery truck, things get complicated after his little brother Jo joins him at the last moment.
- A Japanese American schoolteacher is challenged by a student he suspects of theft.
- A teacher and students recount their time in the U.S. Japanese Internment Camps during World War 2.
- Based on a true story, A SONG FOR MANZANAR is based on one chapter of a forthcoming novel written by author and educator Yosh Golden. It is set in 1945 Manzanar Japanese American Internment Camp and is about a young mother, Sachie, who is driven to instill hope in her playful son while try to communicate with her sister Hiroko who still lives in Hiroshima. Although not physically together, the sisters write letters to each other and through the Japanese childhood folk song, 'The Crow' they maintain hope that one they will be reunited. The film is by Yosh's daughter Kazuko Golden and is about her mother Yosh who was born in Manzanar and her grandmother Sachie, the main protagonist in the film.
- After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. military and FBI arrested more than 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry. Ed visits Manzanar, once an incarceration camp and now a National Park Service site, to meet those keeping the memory alive.
- Huell visits the Owens Valley site of Manzanar War Relocation Center, one of ten camps that interned Japanese-American citizens and resident Japanese aliens during World War II. Experts and former internees tell the camp's complex history.