The Heike Story

The Taira clan—known as the Heike—stands at the height of its power in Japan. A young girl with a mysterious eye that can glimpse the future incurs the clan’s wrath after a careless act of disrespect, and her father is executed as punishment. Not long after, she crosses paths with Taira no Shigemori, the clan leader’s eldest son, now living under the name “Biwa.” She warns him that the Heike’s fall is drawing near, and when Shigemori learns what she has suffered, he chooses to shelter her rather than allow her to be silenced.

As military tensions mount and a ruthless contest for control tightens its grip on the country, conflict looms on the horizon. Shigemori—who can see the spirits of the dead—struggles between dread and determination as he searches for a way to avert his family’s fate. Meanwhile, Biwa hesitates to speak too freely of what she has seen, trying to find her place within the Heike as her days unfold with equal measures of tenderness and grief during a turning point in Japanese history.