Year of Impossible Goodbyes

It is 1945 and courageous tenyearold Sookan and her family must endure thecruelties of the Japanese military occupying Korea. Police captain Narita doeshis best... » 

It is 1945 and courageous tenyearold Sookan and her family must endure thecruelties of the Japanese military occupying Korea. Police captain Narita doeshis best to destroy everything of value to the family but he cannot breaktheir spirit. Sookans father is with the resistance movement in Manchuria andher older brothers have been sent away to labor camps. Her mother is forced tosupervise a sock factory and Sookan herself must wear a uniform and attend aJapanese school.Then the war ends. Out come the colorful Korean silks and bags of white rice.But Communist Russian troops have taken control of North Korea and once againthe family is suppressed. Sookan and her family know their only hope forfreedom lies in a dangerous escape to Americancontrolled South Korea.Here is the incredible story of one familys love for each other and theirdetermination to risk everything to find freedom. «