Plot

Chinese passengers paid $30,000 to sail to the US on the freighter Golden Venture, expecting to arrive indebted by unnoticed. But the ship's tragic grounding off NYC was the largest capture of undocumented immigrants in US history and became a symbol of national anger over illegal immigration. This is the story of four of the passengers, and off small town Americans who fought on their behalf.

"Golden Venture" is a global epic, a story of stoic perseverance and unexpected continuing failure of ever-harsher US immigration policies. At a time when the immigration issue has led to furious debate and high stakes political maneuvering, the fate of the Golden Venture passengers is more relevant than ever.