Inheriting a tansu chest filled with bottles of homemade plum wine wrapped in sheets of calligraphy-covered paper following the death of her friend and colleague Michiko, Barbara Jefferson, an
American teaching at a Tokyo university, hires an enigmatic translater named Seiji to unravel the mysteries of Michiko's life and the hidden world of the hibakusha, Horishima survivors.
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