Behind them are Selina and Marcus (they go in and out of the sunlight during the ride - it alternates from dark to light).The fog hides the reality of life for many inhabitants in the area.Now - Limehouse knows him only as a Chink store-keeper.Ravaged by drug abuse after becoming disillusioned, his mission has failed both personally and spiritually.His father is aghast.The first mate suggests that Bill, Sr.clunk his son over the head with a heavy wrench, adding: "No jury would convict you." On his way up to the prow of the steamboat, Willie stumbles into a deckhand, and ineptly sends a life preserver overboard.The next sequence was a pivotal turning point for he two sisters, occurring in the mid-1930s - decades before the present day of 1962.