Based on Min Jin Lee's best-selling novel and adapted for the screen by Soo Hugh, Pachinko is a sweeping drama of forbidden love and longing told in Korean, Japanese and English as the story of a Korean immigrant family across four generations criss-crosses continents. Beginning in the early 1900s in South Korea, the saga follows resourceful matriarch Sunja (Youn Yuh-jung) as she triumphs against the odds on a quest to thrive away from her homeland. Her struggles contrast, some 80 years later, with the affairs of her grandson Solomon (Jin Ha), who has been raised and educated in the west.