"You have to think about whether they're really your friends," Johnny's dad says when Johnny talks to him about the grief his pals have been giving him lately. The other boys haven't exactly tried to understand why Dad opened up his family's home to Miyeko, a survivor of the Hiroshima Atomic bomb. Although she is only in America a short time to have surgery on her badly scarred face and arm, her visit reveals just how many ignorant and intolerant attitudes still exist 10 years after the war's end. But Johnny, who also resents Miyeko at first, becomes one of her fiercest defenders after he makes the effort to look past her outward appearance. Only then can the scars begin to heal.
Susan Blakely
as Betty Bennett
Tamlyn Tomita
as Miyeko
Stephen Dorff
as Johnny Bennett
Richard Masur
as Jim Bennett
Christopher Masterson
as Timmy Bennett
Kenny Morrison
as Ted Latimer
Dennis Haskins
as Hal Latimer
Brandon Crane
as Sam
Michael Bacall
as Pete
