Raised near San Francisco, May has fully embraced being a young American girl. However, after she graduates from high school, her parents decide to return Japan, their homeland. Upon arriving in Japan, May must now be called Masako, learn speak Japanese, write calligraphy, and sit still for long periods of time. She misses America and ventures to Osaka, a large city in Japan. Masako decides to say in Osaka and gets a job in a large department store giving tours to English speaking businessmen. It is here that she begins to appreciate some of the Japanese traditions and meets a young man who also struggles with some of the cultural and language differences in the East.
The contents are not now, about 80 years before. But even now, when we move from a prefecture to another prefecutre in Japan, we sometimes feel the difference, and lonlyness. Actaully about 40 years have passed since I came this prefecture. My children left home and lived other prefectres. We don't have any relatives in this prefecture. Thankfully we have good friends, but all of them have relatives or children near their places. Or some friends moved to their children's place. I often thing where my last place is.