When the Nazis in Germany were rounding up the Jews for the labor camps and the rest of the world were refusing to accept these refugees, a tailor sneaked his family out of Vienna with the help of a Gypsy family. They ended up in Venice and boarded an ocean-going vessel. Thirty-eight days later, they arrived in Shanghai and found themselves immersed in a world of totally different culture and religious beliefs. They were spared of Hitler's slaughter. But were they going to lose their own culture and tradition? This is the story of their struggles for survival.