Another America looks at Korean immigrant businesses in African American communities from a personal and historical standpoint: Michael Cho leads the viewer through an odyssey that begins with his father, who was the first Korean immigrant merchant to start a business for African Americans (selling wigs to African American women, at one time a flourishing trade for Korean immigrants). Cho ends his journey by looking at the murder of an uncle in Detroit and by re-examining the riots in Los Angeles. He weaves a tapestry of voices from people in each community, whose stories expose both the tragedy and the richness of the American experience.