In December 1941, America is reeling from your brutal attack on Pearl Harbor. Both patriotism and paranoia grasp New York as the town frantically mobilizes for battle. Nurse Louise Hunter is outraged when the FBI, within a midnight sweep of prominent Japanese residents, storms directly into arrest her patient’s wife. The frantically ill Professor Oakley is wedded to designer Masako Fumi. The nurse vows to help the professor free of charge Masako. However when the murdered body of Masako’s art dealer is found out in the gallery where he’d been shutting down her controversial show, Masako’s difficulties multiply. Homicide detective Michael McKenna doubts her guilt, but an ambitious government man strategies to lever the homicide and ensuing espionage accusations right into a political trigger célèbre.

Struggling to spotlight one man’s murder while America plunges right into a worldwide war, Louise and McKenna defy both racism and ham-fisted authorities agents in order to expose the true killer.