Swimming with Tears

In the sparsely populated rural areas of Japan the female population is far smaller than the male An attempt is made to counter this imbalance by arranging marriages with Filipino women Fey a young Filipina came as a mailorder bride Although she tries hard she cannot get on with her husband either verbally or emotionally After a year she flees her snowcountry husband with only the clothes on her back and sets out in search of work in Toyko She wanders through Toyko asking for help in churches and at the Philippine Embassy She needs to find work to earn enough money for a flight home She finally finds a job and a place to stay with a Chinese man who is sympathetic to her situation He introduces her to two of his Japanese neighbors who when they hear Feys life story immediately decide to help her find her Japanese father whom she has never met