Assigned to guard a Yangtze tributary in 1926 China, engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo. "Rice-bowl" management of the ship and the uneasy cohabitation of Chinese and foreigners quickly conflict. The gunboat must crash through a river boom to rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.
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Assigned to guard a Yangtze tributary in 1926 China, engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo. "Rice-bowl" management of the ship and the uneasy cohabitation of Chinese and foreigners quickly conflict. The gunboat must crash through a river boom to rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.
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