Fumiko.

For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.

During Japan's surrender at the end of World War II, many swords were confiscated by American officers. As a means of bringing two cultures together, a filmmaker attempts to return one of these surrendered swords to the owner in Japan.