One fine day has come for the geisha and mobsters hiding the murder of high-level CFO.

Mexicali Rose—Mex to her friends—follows her heart to Kyoto, where the okasan of the oldest geisha house in existence has commissioned a one-shot of Puccini's beloved Madama Butterfly.

On her way to rehearsal one day, a decades-old, deeply painful secret confronts Mex. When it's time, healing waits for no one. She wakens on a rainy morning to a sea of blood, and a summons from her host to solve the high-profile murder of his right-hand man.

As the vigil of her heartbreak turns to healing through Reiki initiation, Mex is understandably wary when the Yakuza—Japanese mobsters—weigh in on the case.

Will Mex face down the mob and drag the truth out of the geisha family that has kept its secrets for so long, or will she have a close call with her own genuine artifice?