Nomitated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary, the film tells the story of the Yasui family, which was forced into an internment camp during World War II ... along with all other Japanese families living in Hood River at the time.

Told through the use of home movies, photos, stills, letters from prison, and personal interviews, A Family Gathering is an emotionally powerful portrait of an American dream turned into an American tragedy. The film causes viewers to come to grips with the realities of confinement, family dissolution, and shattered lives, for which no compensation exists.