- [last lines]
- Miss Hanabusa: [narrating] Fall down seven times, stand up eight. The bank did foreclose. The town and the plantation were subdivided and auctioned off. And the so-called Dr. Reyes was arrested to murder.
- Miss Hanabusa: Our town got a new clinic. And a new doctor. And I... I remained in the service of that young doctor and his wonderful wife for many good years.
- [first lines]
- Koji: [narrating] It is but one life, whether we spend it in loving or in weeping. High up the mountain, where the coffee grows, is an island with an island. A place where many Japanese came to work and live in pursuit of a new life.