It’s dawn and Elizabete Ume Shimada is already behind her sewing machine. Every day, this 90-year-old woman wakes at 4:30 does her daily gym, has a simple breakfast and goes to her post at the front balcony of the house, to work on new bags for the lychee harvest.
From here she can watch the visitors arrive, and they have been coming in droves lately. Lucid in mind, full of stories and memorie
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