Ruth begins to slowly unravel the tale of Nao Yasutani, who has just moved back to Japan after her father lost his job in Silicon Valley. Ruth becomes obsessed with unravelling the identity of Nao, the diary’s author, and finding out if this sixteen year old who had written so candidly in the diary was still alive, or if she had been killed by the deadly tsunami that hit Tokyo just years before. Ruth becomes fascinated by her discovery, which includes the diary, some letters written in French and Japanese, as well as an old watch. The diary is found by Ruth, a young Japanese-American novelist struggling to complete her memoir and feeling adrift from civilization while living on the secluded island.
Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you”, are the first lines of the diary that has washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox on the coast of an island in British Columbia, not too far from Japan. “Hi! My name is Nao, and I am a time being.
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