Mother Country

In 1919 a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi a young woman ready to get married soon With the soil that is hard to work and the subtroipical climate the immigrants have to cope with a hard life But after years of hard work Yoshio finds work as a teacher while his wife manages to open a small grocery store But with the war around the corner life becomes more and more complicated for the Japanese immigrants in a foreign country