Description

A mother-child tale concerning the powerful pull of history, and the price and appeal of breaking free from it. When Shoko chose to marry an American GI and depart Asia, she'd her siblingis disapproval, her parents' benefit, and something special from her husband-a guide on the best way to be considered a correct American housewife. As she crossed the sea to America, Shoko also brought with her a secret she'd need certainly to maintain her lifetime, Half of a millennium later, Shoko's ideas to ultimately reunite with her sibling and go back to China are derailed by disease. In her position, she directs her developed National child, Sue, a divorced single mom whose own existence is not what she wished for.