A sweeping chronicle of the entire exclusion era - the latter part of the 1800s, when anti-Chinese agitation led to federal laws targeting Chinese abroad and those already in the country. Go far beyond the legislation with the survival and growth of Chinese American communities in the face of prejudice and outright violence, the “paper” sons and daughters who emigrated despite the seemingly impassable barriers, and the legal challenges that produced some of the most momentous decisions in Supreme Court history.

美籍华裔导演Li-Shin Yu联手Ric Burns经过6年打造，以大量资料和采访，详述“不为很多人所知的一段美国历史”——1882-1943年，美国禁止中国工人移民到美国，是该国首次颁布法令禁掉一个特定族群进入。