It\'s 1940 when Tolt Gross, an African-American law graduate, arrives in booming Shanghai From the provincial backwater of Seattle.
Once in Shanghai, Chinese and Japanese friends of his From college introduce Tolt to the delights of Shangha.
But the job comes with a humiliating precondition--he must report to a man who despises him.
He has accepted a senior role managing the Asia operations of a US flour company, a position with responsibility and status rarely available to a Black man in America.
It\'s 1940 when Tolt Gross, an African-American law graduate, arrives in booming Shanghai From the provincial backwater of Seattle