Two Faces is the inspiring story based on the real-life friendship of two friends who live through the dark days of World War II when Japanese Americans were evacuated and held in internment camps because they happened to look like the enemy. Nina and Gordon remain close by writing letters, keeping each other updated on their daily lives—behind barbed wire for Gordon and back in their home town of Merced for Nina. While their experiences are dramatically different during World War II because of racial prejudice, their friendship holds together, in part, through the presence and power of their mothers.

Two Faces addresses matters of racial prejudice, a true and lasting friendship maintained from afar, the presence and strength of mothers, and the healing powers of family.