Sukiyaki

Sukiyaki is told retrospectively, through the eyes of Ian Williams, starting from when he is a troubled teenager. The story is also about Ami Fujishiro, who arrives in Canada along with her family when her father is transferred on a job exchange.
Ian and Ami start off simply as strangers living next door to one another, yet although they come from different cultures and there is a difference in age they soon move from being neighbours to friends. However, just as they begin to realise their feelings of love for one another, Ami is sent back to Japan to attend an all girl finishing college after which she is to be wedded into a prearranged marriage.

Will Ian and Ami ever find one another again, to become lovers, before it's too late? Or is their romance doomed to failure even before it began...