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Looking behind his plane, first class airman Shigenori Nishikaichi sees his Japanese Zero fighter plane has a bullet hole in the gas tank. As gasoline pours from his aircraft fresh off the second wave of attacks on Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941, he realizes he must crash land to avoid falling into the ocean. Shigenori desperately guides his fighter plane to the designated crash landing spot on the island of Niihau, which is believed to be uninhabited. He is knocked unconscious landing on the forbidden island.

Waking from the nightmare his life has become, Charlie Porter finds himself in heaven on Earth. His work and life lead him to the island of Kauai with the past dragging behind constant reminders of how he got to where he is. He attempts to make sense of his changing world and life through the lens of the places and people that got him to where he is and where he is going.

Indian Inspector James McLaughlin finds himself recently removed from a fateful order to arrest Sitting Bull, which led to the famous warrior and medicine man’s death at the hands of his own Sioux people. McLaughlin is now tasked with brokering a deal between the Shoshone and Arapahoe in newly formed Wyoming. The two tribes are traditional enemies but find themselves as neighbors on the reservation and partners in a potential deal to sell part of their land that includes the sacred waters.