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In a remote Manchurian town in the 1930s, a sixteen-year-old girl plays the ancient game of go with a stranger, who reveals himself to her as a Japanese soldier in disguise. As the clash of their peoples becomes ever more desperate and inescapable, and as each one's untold life begins to veer wildly off course, the girl and the soldier are absorbed by only one thing-the progress of their game, each move of which brings them closer to their shocking fate.