In a rural town in Southern Idaho, a Japanese family owns and operates a small motel. The year is 1965, the height of the civil rights era. One night a stranger sporting city clothes checks in, the first African American man that Toru Suzuki’s children have ever seen. Yoshiko, Toru’s precocious 13 year old daughter, takes it upon herself to solve the mystery of the man, especially after two detectives come knocking on their door in the middle of the night.