In 1928, schoolteacher Hisako Oishi takes a post on the island of Shodoshima teaching a group of twelve first grade students. In the following years, they face poverty, the rise of nationalism, and finally war.

• 高峰秀子
• Hideki Gôko
• Itsuo Watanabe
• Makoto Miyagawa
• Takeo Terashita
• Kunio Satô
• 笠智衆
• Yumeji Tsukioka
• Takahiro Tamura
• Toshiko Kobayashi