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 isn't the only foreigner to call Tonoharu home. Across town, a group of welthy European eccentrics board in a one-time Buddhist temple, for reason that remain obscure to their gossiping neighbors.
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