Miya is a nurse in a Korean hospital in the early 1950s. She was orphaned as a child in Japan, and government authorities sent her to a children’s home in Japanese-occupied Korea that was run by a woman named Miss Hara. Miya grew up with a younger boy named Junpei. She treated him like a little brother—they went everywhere together, and she vowed that they would leave the orphanage and live together once she became an adult. When he got older, Junpei stumbled in on one of their peers who had hung himself. Distraught, he ran away. Miya was devastated. She grew closer to Miss Hara, and they developed a strong relationship even as war darkened the country. In her twenties, she stayed at the orphanage to teach the younger children. When Miss Hara died, a doctor named Henry offered Miya a position at a local hospital. Two years later, Miya lives a quiet life, sewing in her small room and tending to patients. When a cargo truck drops off a group of injured soldiers, she oversees the intake of an American named Benson and another officer with bandaged eyes. Miya believes that this is Junpei. She leaves the other nurses to care for the rest of her patients and obsessively looks after him. On the hospital grounds, she meets a blind boy who seems to have no supervision. Worried, she tells Henry. He gently tells her that she’s not well, and he reminds her that she should be taking her medication. She continues fervently nursing Junpei and meeting with the blind boy. One day, a woman comes to visit Junpei. Henry explains that that is his mother. Miya tells him that he must be mistaken because she and Junpei are orphans. Henry again urges her to rest and take her medications. Miya goes back to meet with the blind boy, who takes her far away from the hospital on his bicycle. He consoles her, and he predicts that the war is almost over.