When Jade Moon, born in the unlucky year of the Fire Horse, and her father immigrate to America in 1923 and are detained at Angel Island Immigration Station, Jade Moon is determined to find a way through and prove that she is not cursed.
Follows the lives and loves of those settling the West in the years 1857 to 1869 and highlights events taking place in Great Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and the desert Southwest.