Carl’s mother, Etta, reveals that Kabuo’s father had once intended to buy seven acres of strawberry farmland from Carl’s father, Carl Sr. This forced internment during WWII becomes a key point in establishing a motive for murder in Kabuo’s trial. The Japanese and white citizens of the town have always coexisted uncomfortably, especially since the paranoia of the WWII era when the town’s Japanese citizens were taken to internment camps for a couple of years.
The murder trial is tense, partially because the accused man is part of San Piedro’s large Japanese-American community. The story is told through a combination of present-day courtroom scenes and flashbacks to the past. Ishmael and Hatsue grew up together and were childhood sweethearts.
Ishmael Chambers is San Piedro’s only journalist, and he feels conflicted about reporting on Kabuo’s trial, because he is still in love with Kabuo’s wife, Hatsue. An autopsy reveals that Carl sustained a head injury before falling overboard, and the citizens of San Piedro are shocked when local man Kabuo Miyamoto is accused of murdering Carl. In San Piedro, Washington, in 1954, a fisherman named Carl Heine is discovered drowned and tangled in his own fishing net.
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