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.

当一位酒店评论家突然投宿父亲经营的家庭旅馆时，罗尔斯顿一家人必须全部假装成住宿的旅客以期能得到好评。露西爱上了旅客杰克，却不能与之分享她的秘密。