Japan, 2005. While researching her ancestors, 20-year-old Isla encounters a vicious typhoon who sends her back in time to 1877, the dawn of the Satsuma Rebellion. Through a combination of fate and courage, Isla meets her ancestors, as well as Keiichiro Maeda, a samurai who she ends up falling for. She must decide whether to stay with the man she loves, knowing his samurai values irrevocably fate him to death, or to return to her previous life, forever changed by the history she has not only learned but lived.