Daniel Wells begins a new life as an assistant junior high school teacher in the rural Japanese village of Tonoharu. Isolated from those around him by cultural and language barriers he leads a monastic existence peppered only by his inept pursuit of the company of a fellow American who lives a couple towns over. But contrary to appearances Dan isnt the only foreigner to call Tonoharu home. Across town a group of wealthy European eccentrics are boarding in a onetime Buddhist temple for reasons t