Eight young women who are brought from Japan to San Francisco as "picture brides" in the early twentieth century and struggle to adapt to their new husbands, language, and culture and raise children who reject their heritage and history.
In 1878, twelve-year-old Ida Kate and her widowed father welcome a mail-order bride and her baby to their Kansas homestead, but Ida Kate soon suspects that the bride is not the woman with whom Papa has corresponded.
