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Francisco Perez was 98 years old when we filmed his interview - 98 years old and full of stories...of the hard life in Spain as a small child; of the long crossing around Cape Horn with his mother, brother and cousin to get to Hawai'i; of unexpected circumstances when they arrived; of working on a sugar cane plantation in Maui as a child then later, doing odd-jobs in Honolulu; and finally, of coming to California as a young man. But in San Francisco where they disembarked, he told us "you couldn't get a job," so once again he worked in the fields. And the way Francisco tells it, everything involves colorful stories.

Francisco Perez' account is supplemented by interviews with children of the Spanish immigrants who talk of the language gap, of their parents' stories of the shock of the arrival, of going to schools in which almost all the kids' parents were Spanish, of picking fruit in the summer.... Our host in this documentary is Jaime Cader, long-time member of one of the Spanish clubs where the immigrants and their descendants socialize and reminisce about their Spanish heritage.

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