LA gardener Mas Arai returns to Hiroshima to bring his best friend's
ashes to a relative on the tiny offshore island of Ino, only to become
embroiled in the mysterious death of a teenage boy who was about the
same age Mas was when he survived the atomic bomb in 1945.
The boy's death affects the elderly, often-curmudgeonly,
always-reluctant sleuth, who cannot return home to Los Angeles until he
finds a way to see justice served.