The year is 1909. Nearly 2,000 Greeks live in South Omaha. Ioannis Manousaridis, a laborer, is accused of murdering a police officer. The Greek community claims he has been framed, but an unprecedented wave of hostility erupts against it, fueled by the Ku Klux Klan. Greeks are forced to flee, threatened by the fury of a mob that blames them for every ill. Nikolaos Tzimikas, an immigrant from Grevena, is murdered in cold blood. The motives are racist.
The year 1909 remains in history for the anti-Greek pogrom in Nebraska, directed against Greek immigrants, most of whom were laborers working in mines.