Alice Eng and Anne Lee are sisters who discuss what life was like growing up in New York City in a big family. After living in Brooklyn for the first few years of their lives, their family then moved to China. However they then returned to the United States as refugees and their family then relocated to Midtown. Some of their family members fought in World War II and both women went to graduate high school, get married and become homemakers. In the interview they express their interests in learning and reading when they were young but also how they grew up being told they would only be homemakers. They discuss generational differences between their parents, them and their own children and how they grew up affected their parenting styles.