This epic series accompanies five families as they migrate from India, the West Bank, Nigeria, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico to the United States. Shot in the cinema verité style, the series depicts a diverse range of circumstances that lead to migration, such as political oppression, religious persecution, professional aspiration, poverty, global capitalism, and love.  It then documents an equally diverse range of immigrant experiences in the United States—racism, class and educational demotion, generational strife, bureaucratic alienation, cultural loss, and police harassment. It is impossible to think about immigration in the abstract after witnessing the heartbreaking struggles and hard-fought triumphs of these five families. Chemical engineer Israel Nwidor and his family travel from a West African camp for Ogoni refugees from Nigeria to Chicago, where they must start over from scratch. Naima Saadeh, a Palestinian student at the University of East Jerusalem, struggles to finish her degree under occupation, marries a Palestinian American man, and moves to Chicago, where her husband works day and night at the city’s only Arab American community center. Two Dominican baseball players, Ricardo Rodriguez and José García, fight their way through training camps in their home country and are recruited to the minor leagues in the United States. Mexican migrant worker Pedro Flores struggles to bring his wife and six children to the United States after thirteen long years of traveling twelve hundred miles between home and work, spending only fifteen days of every six months with his family. Anjan Bacchu, a software programmer from Bangalore, India, obtains the coveted H-1B visa and moves with his new wife to pre-bust Silicon Valley to pursue his fortunes in the high-tech industry.