1919. Escaping Russia's war on Ukraine, an immigrant Romeo and Juliet battle for a better life in Canada.

1919. Stefan Sokolowski and his father, Mike, leave family behind in Ukraine, escaping Russia's war on their homeland. In Winnipeg, Canada, they struggle to earn enough to re-unite the family, falling prey to the slave wages and discrimination foist upon immigrants. Stefan is instantly smitten by his Jewish suffragette neighbor, Rebecca Almazoff, but Rebecca's brother, Moishe, and Mike oppose the would-be Romeo and Juliet. Returned soldiers, angry at the lack of post-war jobs, violently threaten the city's immigrants, including Emma, a refugee from racist violence in Oklahoma, and Gabriel, an Indigenous Métis war veteran. When a movement develops for workers to leave their jobs in protest, a wealthy lawyer, A.J. Anderson, pits all against each other in this dramatic and inspirational movie musical.