Mami Horikoshi

サーフィンが大好きな大学生のひな子は、消防士の青年・港と運命的な恋に落ちた。彼にサーフィンの手ほどきをしながら幸せな日々を過ごすひな子だが、ある時、ひとりで海に行った港が命を落としてしまう。生きる気力を失い、サーフィンもやめて失意に沈むひな子。そんなある時、彼女がふと思い出の歌を口ずさむと、水の中に港の姿が浮かび上がる。やがてひな子は、自分にしか見えない水の中の港との再会に耽溺していく。

The story is set in a village in the southern Japanese prefecture of Kōchi during World War II. Even in this remote mountainous area, the perception of American and British people as "brutes" has taken root, due to the deaths and injuries among the villagers' relatives. A elementary schoolgirl named Eiko transfers from the city of Yokohama to this village. Eiko happens to have blue eyes from her American father, and her classmates make no attempt to rein in their bullying. Other than Eiko's homeroom teacher Akiko, even the teachers view Eiko the same way that the children do. However, a boy named Kenta views Eiko more with curiosity than with hostility. The children's lives change as the injured father of one of Kenta's classmates returns from the battlefield and news of more casualties arrives in the village.