"Going to Peru as a mail-order bride, the protagonist-a country woman-learns how to be herself in a country she knows nothing about. (The film is) a small masterpiece....Hani cuts very freely back and forth, sacrificing conventional continuity in order to achieve immediacy of effect and an overwhelming sense of empathy with his heroine (marvelously well played by Sachiko Hidari, who won the Best Actress Award at the Chicago Festival). Counterpointing this are beautifully captured scenes of the natural splendor of Peru, the Indians and their lives, and the lives of the new Japanese settlers. The result is a remarkably fluid and open-ended film, very subtle, with no rounded edges." (Donald Richie)