They were born more than 10,000 miles apart in the late 1800s. Two oceans and the continent
of North America separated them, Kutaro Nishimuta, a Japanese gentleman, and Louisa Lorenzo,
a beautiful Spanish woman.
This is the true story of an Issei immigrant and his multicultural Nisei family. They lived
and farmed in rural Oklahoma and survived the Great Depression.
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