Their mother's last words were to keep their wrapping cloth where she had hidden money for her children. Their mother dies on the same day, leaving Yoko and Ko waiting for their brother Hideyo.
She then leaves for Aomori to seek help from their grandparents who she discovers are both dead. Eventually, Yoko's mother travels to Kyoto to find her family. Once again, they find themselves living in a train station scrounging in the garbage for food to survive. When Yoko, her sister Ko, and her mother reach Fukuoka, Japan, it is not the beautiful, comforting, welcoming place Yoko dreamed of. After receiving medical treatment in Seoul, Yoko, her sister, and mother board a train to Busan, and then a ship to Japan. Yoko is injured from the bombing and the women are forced to walk the rest of the way. The women of the family board a train to Seoul using a letter from a family diplomat but their trip is cut short by a bomb 45 miles away from Seoul. Her brother, Hideyo, also tries to leave but he is separated from his family because he has to serve at an ammunition factory for six days a week. As the War draws towards a close, Yoko and her family realizes the danger of their situation and attempts to escape back to Japan as Communists troops close in on North Korea. Yoko is 11 years old and living in North Korea during World War II while their father works as a Japanese government official in Manchuria, China. The story begins with Yoko Kawashima (and her mother, brother and sister) living in Nanam.
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