In Chinatown to deliver a baby, Sarah Brandt meets a group of women she
might otherwise never have come across: Irish girls who, after alighting
on Ellis Island alone, have married Chinese men in the same predicament.
But with bigotry in New York from every side, their mixed-race children
are often treated badly, by the Irish, the Chinese--even the police.
When the new mother's half-Chinese, half-Irish, 15-year-old niece goes
missing, Sarah knows that alerting the constables would prove futile. So
she turns to Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy--and together they begin
the search themselves. And after they find her, dead in an alley, Sarah
and Malloy have ample suspects--from both sides of Canal Street.