Publisher's Synopsis
Hana flees to the Yoshiwara, Tokyo's pleasure quarter, where she becomes a courtesan. Yozo returns to Japan to discover that the world he left behind has been destroyed. Travelling north, he is captured but escapes making his way south - to the Yoshiwara. There the battered fugitive meets the beautiful courtesan, but each has a secret so terrible, it will threaten their very lives...