Fans of Ann Patchett's Bel Canto will love this search for escape- from captivity and from our repressed identities. You've heard of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but what if there were secret forces that prevented a third atomic bomb? After her mother's death, orphaned child Lee Haeun leaves Korea to find the spring of her family's unspoken past. She arrives in Japan as the first bombs of war drop, only to be kidnapped by the people she believes have saved her. Behind the walls of captivity, Haeun learns news of a secret tunnel that might lead to safety, as evidence comes to light that a person from her mother's life might be inside with her. Is it possible for her to find a family in this new world, or will she forever be separated by countries at war with one another? As she struggles with her ethnic identity, she also comes to realize the heroes of the story may not be the people she has assumed, and the results of the war may be in the hands of a child.