To keep him out of trouble, a neighbor who owns a pachinko parlor, Goro, hires Mozasu to work for him. Mozasu befriends a Japanese outcast, Haruki, whose mother is a seamstress. As Noa grows up, he is studious and well behaved, while Mozasu doesn't like school and gets into trouble. Kim also stays with them and continues to work for Hansu, who now is a gangster running a "protection" racket. Yoseb is badly injured when Nagasaki is bombed.Īfter the war, the family moves back to Osaka and rebuilds their house larger with the money the farmer gave them. Hansu brings Yangjin to the farm as well. He brings the family to a farm where they will be safe, though Yoseb goes to Nagasaki for a new job. He's been keeping tabs on her, and Kim works for him which is why they were offered the kimchi job. One day, Hansu shows up saying that Osaka will soon be bombed by the Americans and that Sunja needs to leave. When Noa is 8, Isak is finally released from prison, weak and sick, but he dies soon after. Soon, Kim Changho, a restaurateur, offers to employ both Sunja and Kyunghee to make kimchi for his restaurants, for a generous salary. Afterwards, Sunja starts selling kimchi to help make ends meet. However, Isak gets arrested for religious activities. In Book II, young Noa now how has a baby brother, Mozasu. Sunja sells a watch Hansu had given her to pay off the debt. One day, some debt collectors come demanding payment on a debt that Yoseb incurred when paying for the costs for Isak and Sunja to come to Osaka.
Isak becomes the assistant pastor at a church. Sunja and Isak move to Osaka, Japan, to live with Isak's brother and sister-in-law, Yoseb and Kyunghee. When he is better, he asks Sunja to marry him after hearing about her unfortunate situation. Meanwhile, a religious man comes to stay at the boarding house, Baek Isak, who has tuberculosis, and they nurse him back to health. He offers to take care of Sunja financially, but she wants nothing to do with him. Hansu is married with children and cannot marry her. When Sunja is 16, she meets a fish salesman, Koh Hansu, who seduces her, and Sunja gets pregnant.
Afterwards, Yangjin keeps running the boarding house by herself for income. Hoonie dies of tuberculosis when Sunja is 13.
Their only surviving son, Hoonie, is a cripple who marries a nice but impoverished girl, Yangjin. Book I introduces an old fisherman and his wife who turn their small home in Yeongdo, Korea into a boarding house.
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