Emotional scars are always the last to heal.
"You have to think about whether they're really your friends," Johnny's dad says when Johnny talks to him about the grief his pals have been giving him lately. The other boys haven't exactly tried to understand why Dad opened up his family's home to Miyeko, a survivor of the Hiroshima Atomic bomb. Although she is only in America a short time to have surgery on her badly scarred face and arm, her visit reveals just how many ignorant and intolerant attitudes still exist 10 years after the war's end. But Johnny, who also resents Miyeko at first, becomes one of her fiercest defenders after he makes the effort to look past her outward appearance. Only then can the scars begin to heal.
J. Miyoko Hensley
Writer
Steven Hensley
Writer
Joan Darling
Director

Susan Blakely
Betty Bennett

Tamlyn Tomita
Miyeko

Stephen Dorff
Johnny Bennett

Richard Masur
Jim Bennett

Christopher Masterson
Timmy Bennett

Kenny Morrison
Ted Latimer

Dennis Haskins
Hal Latimer

Brandon Crane
Sam

Michael Bacall
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