The Jade Pendant (2017)

Fleeing an arranged marriage in China the independent Peony signs a contract to work as a flower girl in America where she meets Tom an American Born Chinese cook whose father works on the Transcontinental Railroad Thwarted by a Hong Kong Triad boss seeking to extend his power into America theirs is the tale of the first great Chinese immigration to the United States a story of romance bigotry passion food and a search for everlasting love set against the largest mass lynching in American history in Los Angeles Chinatown in 1871