Tai Choi leaves her home in China, and is put on a ship headed for “Gold Mountain” (San Francisco). Sold by her father to pay his debts, she’s forced to go by the name on her forged papers: Tien Fu Wu. New life as a servant is hard. Her life changes when she’s rescued by the women at the Occidental Mission Home for Girls. When Dolly Cameron arrives in San Francisco, she meets Tien Fu. Dolly and Tien Fu forge a powerful friendship as they work to free enslaved immigrant women and girls.