By recounting the fate of two young people in the occupied Korea of the 1930s, Yudori confirms her talent as an author and artist.

Korea, 1929. In the capital city called Gyeongsung, the West is slowly diffusing its "modern" culture, but Japan is the occupying force. Arisa Jo, the daughter of a rich merchant, and Jun Seomoon, the young heir to a deposed nobility, will embody these contrasting influences and the violent inner conflicts that they engender within each Korean.