A novice city-based teacher's first assignment is to a fishing village's grade school. The young teacher's first week with her new students is enjoyable, but she gradually notices that many of the students are skipping school. Visiting her students after class, she realizes that many of them are charged with work and tasks like making money, toiling on the farm, doing housework or tending to their younger siblings. Many of them live in unhygienic homes due to poverty or overwork. She not only reports and explains the situation to the school's principal, but also attempts to improve the conditions by making textbooks, teaching cleanliness, and making her classes relevant.

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Cast

Setsuko Hara

Tomiko Hirayama

Yōtarō Katsumi

Schoolmaster

Kamatari Fujiwara

Senzo's father

Yuriko Hanabusa

Senzo's mother

Taizō Fukami

School doctor

Ichirō Ryūzaki

Kanzaki

Keiji Sakakida

Bunkichi's father

Kan Yanagiya

Chika's father