In 1903, a young Scots woman goes to join her diplomat fiancée in Manchuria. She marries him, and finds herself in a war zone. Disenchanted with her husband, she falls in love with a married Japanese nobleman, Count Kentaro Kurihama, and bears him a son. She carves out a life for herself in Japanese society, despite the hardships and ostracism she faces as both a Westerner and a woman.
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Trivia: The first BBC drama to be shot for High Definition Television.