“All around me my friends are talking joking laughing. Outside is the camp the barbed wire the guard towers the city the country that hates us. We are not free. But we are not alone.”Fourteen teens who have grown up together in Japantown San Francisco. Fourteen teens who form a community and a family as interconnected as they are conflicted. Fourteen teens whose“All around me my friends are talking joking laughing. Outside is the camp the barbed wire the guard towers the city the country that hates us. We are not free. But we are not alone.”Fourteen teens who have grown up together in Japantown San Francisco. Fourteen teens who form a community and a family as interconnected as they are conflicted. Fourteen teens whose lives are turned upside down when over 100000 people of Japanese ancestry are removed from their homes and forced into desolate incarceration camps. In a world that seems determined to hate them these young Nisei must rally together as racism and injustice threaten to pull them apart.(less)