This is a true Japanese story. Fumiko was blind, but she accepted her fate. She was positive, and she did not forget to live with a smile all the time. This is the second "阿信的故事" like a "Oshin" story.
(Fumiko is based on a true story: the childhood of Awazu Kiyo, a pioneer in the establishment of independence for visually impaired women in Japan. In rural Niigata Prefecture in the 1930s, the young Fumiko loses her eyesight to disease brought on by poverty-induced malnutrition. The alternatives for a visually handicapped woman at this time are to become either a samisen-playing itinerant goze singer, or a masseuse, and in 1935, 8 year-old Fumiko undertakes a five-year apprenticeship with a masseuse in the town of Takada. The life is hard, but her ambition remains. She learns Braille, and eagerly reads the autobiography of Helen Keller. As resolutely as she continues, however, there are still trials and tribulations awaiting.)