Jasmine O'Dale precariously bridges two cultures with her looks, her heart, and her destiny.
Race riots and fear condemned Detroit in 1967, and those cultural influences took their toll on Jasmine's family. Against the odds, she and her Japanese mother Kitsune both developed their full potential as photographers. Following Kitsune’s untimely death, a clash of wills drove Jasmine and her American father Jasper apart as they became enemies and lived estranged for thirty years.
She rediscovers her mother’s lost photographs and diaries. Haunted by mistakes of her youth and seeking redemption, she visits her dying father hoping to reconcile and unravel the secrets of his postwar marriage to Kitsune at Fushimi Inari Shrine near Kyoto, Japan. To banish her guilt, she works to produce a retrospective show of her mother’s art and travels to Japan to bury her ashes.
Reality blurs between past and present as she hikes the enchanting Tunnel of Ten Thousand Torii. Carrying her mother’s diary, she relives formative moments from her 1960's childhood, images from the reel of film that was her life. Only in Japan will she learn the truth – only in Japan will she discover on which side of the limen she stands – and unwittingly set into motion events that will lead to her own death.