Rain of Gold intertwines the real life stories of two Hispanic families’ migration from revolutionary Mexico to United States in the 1910s. Victor Villaseñor vividly paints a portrait of life in riotous Mexico before recounting the perilous journeys and hardships faced as migrant workers in the United States through the stories of his mother Lupe and bootlegger father Juan Salvador Villaseñor and the love that developed between them after meeting in California.