Shanghai Girls

In Paris of Asia, 21 year old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Both are beautiful, modern and carefree, until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth and that, to repay his debts, he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from Los Angeles to find chinese brides. As japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, Pearl and May set out on the journey of a lifetime, from the chinese countryside to the shores of A