Keiko Kitigawa disembarks from a plane on a New York airstrip in June 1952, turning one scarred cheek away from the pop and flare of news photographers' cameras An eighteen-year-old survivor of the atomic blast that destroyed Hiroshima and vaporized the people she loved best, Keiko has been chosen from hundreds to undergo sponsored treatment for her face On the tarmac, waiting nervously, is Daisy Lawrence, a childless housewife, who is to take care of the girl in her suburban Long Island home