Returning home to the Idaho potato farm she fled twenty-five years earlier, Yumi struggles with her father's terminal illness, her mother's Alzheimer's, her former best friend, and a former lover who once offended the town.
The ramining Japanese in King County were ordered to leave and those still in Seattle were to be evacuated to complete the removal of all Seattle Japanese.
.The removal of all Japanese from Seattle was imminent, according to Gerald Shucklin, chief assistant United States attorney, who had returned from a meeting with other U.S. attorneys who met in San Francisco.