Огоньки на воде

1951 god, Tokio, okkupirovannai͡a amerikanskimi voĭskami poslevoennai͡a I͡Aponii͡a. Ėlli Raskin okazalasʹ mezhdu dvukh mirov: napolovinu i͡aponka, napolovinu shotlandka, deportirovannai͡a v I͡Aponii͡u iz Avstralii, ona pytaetsi͡a nachatʹ novui͡u zhiznʹ v Tokio, no ėto ne tak-to prosto. V tom chisle potomu, chto ona revnuet svoego muzha k Vide Vidanto, izvestnoĭ i͡aponskoĭ poėtesse. Ėlli ne edinstvennai͡a, u kogo estʹ voprosy k opalʹnoĭ poėtesse: amerikant͡sev interesuet, chem ta zanimalasʹ v Kitae v gody voĭny. Za Vidoĭ organizui͡ut slezhku: ee dolzhen osushchestvli͡atʹ Dzi͡un - podrostok-sirota, bezhavshiĭ s poteri͡annogo i͡apont͡sami Sakhalina i protiv voli zaverbovannyĭ amerikanskoĭ razvedkoĭ. Ėlli i Dzi͡un vse bolʹshe zaputyvai͡utsi͡a v smertelʹnoĭ pautine intrig i predatelʹstva.

1951, Tokyo, post-war Japan occupied by American troops. Ellie Ruskin is caught between two worlds: half Japanese, half Scottish, deported to Japan from Australia, she is trying to start a new life in Tokyo, but it is not so easy. In particular, because she is jealous of her husband's love for Vidanto, a famous Japanese poet. Ellie is not the only one who has questions for the disgraced poet: Americans are interested in what she did in China during the war. Vida is being monitored: she must be carried out by Jun, an orphan teenager who escaped from Sakhalin, lost to the Japanese and was recruited against his will by American intelligence. Ellie and Jun are increasingly entangled in a deadly web of intrigue and betrayal.