When Japan bombs Pearl Harbor in 1941, nine-year-old Minoru Fukushima and his family become targets of the anti-Japanese hysteria that sweeps Canada. The film traces how thousands of Japanese Canadians, Minoru's family among them, are stripped of their homes and businesses on the British Columbia coast and shipped inland to internment camps, treated as enemies of the state despite holding Canadian citizenship. It follows the arc of that displacement through to the further indignity of deportation orders issued even after the war ends, as the government tries to send Japanese Canadians to a defeated Japan many of them had never seen. Built from family memory, archival photographs, and the historical record of wartime policy, the film stays close to one child's experience of exile rather than treating the internment as an abstract chapter of Canadian history. It is a small, specific account of how a nine-year-old's sense of home gets dismantled by his own government.