In autumn 1941, Brina Berman, an 18-year-old Jewish woman from Warsaw, Poland, gains a transit visa from a Lithuania-posted Japanese diplomat that allows her to escape the Nazis after they murder her family. Brina finds herself in Kobe, Japan, a country in alliance with Germany. Haunted by a maternal water spirit, she strives to find a way forward in a world rife with chaos. The story is drawn from true events.