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Somewhere in Japan as the 20th century is nearing its end, an ageing woman confides in her granddaughter and her story is almost incredible. She tells of a forbidden love; of family secrets handed down through generations; of unspeakable, hidden, and tortuous parentage; of passion, murder, and intertwined destinies. It’s also the history of Japan with its untold cruelty; its wars and tragedies; the deep scars left by the atom bombs in the landscape, the bodies, and the surviving souls. Tsubame: Yukio’s elderly mother Mariko Takahashi keeps hidden as best she can her Korean origins, which cost her mother and her uncle their lives in a massacre following the Tokyo earthquake of 1923.