Girls are enrolled in a private school and the university. Trace the route from Fukuoka to Kyoto . Circle Kyoto . Locate and circle Aomori, Japan . Mother returns with news that both sets of grandparents died during the war.
Mother dies same day in railroad station.
Girls find a room upstairs in a factory. The new year comes and they are still on their own. Trace the route from Kyoto to Maizuru . Hideyo, the brother, finally escapes Korea and makes it to Kyoto in early Spring and is reunited with his sisters. Hideyo's journey to Japan is another story within the larger story.