このドキュメンタリーは鹿児島県いちき串木野市出身で、「戦後移民の父」といわれる、内田善一郎と、アメリカの大地に人生をかけた同郷の家族たちとの６０年におよぶ物語である。
Born and raised in Ichiki-Kushikino city, Kagoshima, Zenichiro Uchida is known as, "The Father of Immigrants". This story is not his alone. It is the story of the men and their family that Zenichiro helped immigrate to the United States more than 60 years ago.

１９５０年代、鹿児島出身の男たちがアメリカへ渡った。
彼らの先導したリーダーが「戦後移民の父」といわれる内田善一郎。
若者は狭い国土にひしめいて暮らすより、広大なアメリカに可能性を見出すべきとして地元で移民運動を始めた。
１ドルが３６０円の時代、農村の若者たちは、善一郎の夢のような儲け話しを真剣に聞いた。善一郎は戦後、派米農業実習生としてアメリカに派遣され、自由平等主義や開拓精神を学んだ。善一郎の夢は貧困にあえぐ地元の男たちをどうにかして渡米させることだったが、日本人による移民は１９２４年に施行された「排日移民法」の壁に阻まれていた。
そこで、思いついたのが当時、ソ連や東ドイツなど共産政府から迫害をうけた政治難民を対象とした「難民救済法」の適用だ。日米政府にアジア諸国にも適用させるようにかけあった。
しかし、鹿児島の農村は法律の適用には及ばないという調査官の判断で保留となってしまう、しかも当時はまだ戦後間もない時代、反米派が善一郎の運動を批判し、貧しい農民を奴隷としてアメリカへ売り渡そうとしていると噂するものや、善一郎の実家へ運動をやめさせるよう脅迫に訪れる者も現れた。
一方、希望者が増えていく中で悩む善一郎だったが、そこに思わぬ協力者が現れた。日系市民協会の日系２世ロビイスト、マイク・正岡だった。マイク正岡は当時の日系社会の指導者的存在で、戦争によって差別をうけた日系人たちの人権の回復のために尽力していた。マイク正岡は善一郎の移民運動の話しを知り、少しでも苦しむ同じ日本人を救おうと米国議会にかけあった。その介があって事態は好転、難民救済法の適用の道が開けた。

During early 1950's, young men in Japan could not find jobs or own their own land.
Zenichiro felt that the only way for these men to provide for their families and support themselves was to go to America where wages were better and the land was abundant.
He went to America for one year as part of the Agricultural Trainee Program. While in America, he learned about the Refugee Relief Act where if you qualify as refugee status due to the natural disaster in the early 1950s you are eligible. Prior to this Act, there was a US law that was established that barred Asians from immigrating to America called the "Asian Exclusion Act of 1924".
However, upon further investigating, he discovered that Europeans were let into USA via the "the Refugee Relief Act". During that time, Asians in the US began lobbying for their own "Asian Relief Act", proposing to Congress to allow 3000 visas granted to Asian Americans. Because of lobbyist Mike Masaoka’s (an ally to Zenichiro) efforts, he lobbied on their behalf and was granted 1000 visas for Japan.
Knowing this information, Zenichiro asked both the Japanese and US government to recognize the farmers in the Kagoshima regions as being eligible for the Refugee Relief Act, but was rejected.
However, Zenichiro continued to lobby the US Embassy to admit the men of Kagoshima as refugees. Luckily, the Kagoshima men were able to attain refugee status due to a typhoon (Ruth Typhoon) that had hit the region in the early 1950s.
As Zenichiro continued to work on getting more visas, rumors began to circulate in his hometown of Kushikino (where Anti-American sentiment had grown during the war) that young farmers were being sold as slaves. To make matters worse, his father and his family were threatened by those opposed to Zenichiro’s efforts. Despite his setbacks, word of Zenichiro’s work spread and many more applications were submitted to him.
One day, a friend of Zenichiro called to let him know that JACL lobbyist Mike Masaoka would be visiting Tokyo. Mike Masaoka was a JACL lobbyist from Washington DC and worked to help both Japanese Americans and Japanese nationals with visas.
Their meeting resulted in the inclusion of the Ruth Typhoon victims as part of the Refugee Relief Act. The Kagoshima immigrants were granted refugee status.
From 1955 to 1956, 333 men immigrated to America from the Kagoshima prefecture. They boarded the chartered airplanes and stopped in Hawaii before landing in San Francisco.
This was such a momentous occasion for Japan that their journey was reported on in national newspapers, even going as far as being dubbed the " Flying Refugee Immigrants".