Set in 1941, a drama about Canada's World War II policies toward Japanese-heritage citizens as told through the saga of a middle-class family forced to leave their successful Vancouver boating business, and relocate in a small, economically depressed mining town in the British Columbia interior, immediately following the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

莉莉自家乡到洛杉矶求学，住进学生宿舍看到死去的艾薇日记，因自己缺少信心，为日记中的大胆假想，憧憬自己变成美丽诱人的女郎，周旋在同学葛丁与教授唐纳之间，造成两人的敌对，以致毁坏了教授的婚姻，后来教授堕楼而死，莉莉终于觉悟，不必标新立异而与葛丁重修旧好。

When 11-year-old Gitty discovers that her beloved father is hiding a wealthy man in her family's silo in order to save their struggling farm, she is forced to choose between saving the man's life or protecting her family from the consequences of their actions. AMERICAN FABLE is a fairytale thriller set in the 1980s rural Midwest about a courageous girl living in a dark - sometimes magical - world.