The New Americans follows four years in the lives of a diverse group of contemporary immigrants and refugees as they journey to start new lives in America. From Nigeria, India, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, each family has come with different dreams: to achieve athletic glory or high-tech riches, to escape poverty and persecution, or to better provide for their families in America and back home. The New Americans captures the lives of these newcomers, before they leave their homelands, then follows them through their first tumultuous years in America.