It's 1969, and Emiko's father has gone to Tokyo to support student protests against the Vietnam War—but hasn't come back. Then suddenly her mother dies. In despair, twenty-year-old Emiko abandons her factory job to go searching for her missing father. In Tokyo, Emiko meets Juan, an American soldier recovering from a battle injury. Now she is in love with a soldier in the war she and her father have been denouncing for years.