A girl with blue eyes in wartime Japan is not a metaphor, it's a sentence. The village doesn't see a child; it sees the enemy, and that clarity of cruelty makes every small kindness feel like an act of resistance. This is a story about how a single person learns to exist in a place that has decided not to let her.
A village in the mountains of Kōchi during World War II has come to see Americans and Britons as brutes, a view rooted in the deaths and injuries suffered by the villagers' relatives. Eiko, an elementary schoolgirl, transfers there from Yokohama. She has blue eyes from her American father, and her classmates bully her without restraint. Apart from her homeroom teacher Akiko, even the teachers share the children's view of her. One boy, Kenta, regards her with curiosity instead of hostility. When a classmate's father comes home wounded from the front and word of further casualties reaches the village, the children's lives begin to change. A single-episode wartime drama.