Táto séria rozpráva pohlcujúci príbeh o dvoch sestrách, ktorých život sa dramaticky zmení v rušnom Šanghaji tridsiatych rokov. Z privilegovaného života sú uvrhnuté do neistoty a musia čeliť nepredstaviteľným výzvam, vrátane nútených sobášov a ciest cez oceán do novej krajiny. Sledujeme ich boj o nájdenie lásky, prežitie a znovuobjavenie nádeje v cudzom svete, kde sa stretávajú s predsudkami aj s lákadlami Hollywoodu.
In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father's prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives
A continuation of "Shanghai Girls" finds a devastated Joy fleeing to China to search for her real father while her mother, Pearl, desperately pursues her, a dual quest marked by their encounters with the nation's intolerant Communist culture