When Mr. Amankwah wins the green card lottery, he sees it as an opportunity to go and explore greener pastures in America, where his genius son and precocious daughter can flourish educationally in the promise land.

Mr. Amankwah is a fifteen year veteran accountant in the Ministry of Agriculture. He lives a comfortable, middle-class life by African standards. As fate would have it, he wins the American green card lottery and he decides to migrate with his family from Africa. He is confident this will especially benefit his son Franklin, to enter an ivy league university eventually. Upon arrival, his sense of optimism, quickly starts to fizzle as the American Dream proves elusive. Through humorous encounters and situations, The Amankwah's try to make sense of this so- called American Dream.—Som Aidoo