9th - 10th Cen. AD: In the golden age of Heian, the man named Fujiwara-no-Kiku acts as a member of the imperial line and advisor to the Emperor. But all the while, he has to keep hidden his true identity as personification of the land of the rising sun. Things start to become complicated, however, when one night he discovers a tiny baby girl within a bamboo stalk.

Third Year of the Bunkyū Era (1863). A man feared as one of the strongest of the Shinsengumi, the captain of the first unit and a prodigious swordsman. A woman wandering as a lone goze, a blind musician whose shamisen music fills up her silence. As the cruel rain pours, their paths cross and their secrets are revealed. It's only a question of whose secret will kill who first.

Above occupied Poland, the sky is tainted ashes and snow. In a dark alleyway are rags and ripped flowers. Underfoot there are puddles and pavement, everywhere there are scars: a city torn apart by war. And on this cold November morning, a German officer encounters a young Polish girl whom he may be able to save from it all.

When France discovers the Little Prince on the coldest winter day in the world, he finds to his horror that his heart has frozen over and the boy is dying, and pleads with England to save him.

July 17, 1918. It's a gentle dream of clouds and blue sky, and a young boy in a sailor suit talks about his dreams of becoming tsar. But with the Romanov family prisoners in the Ipatiev House, and with Ivan among their guards, a familiar dream turns into a nightmare. His orders are clear: Ivan must carry out the execution of the Romanovs.