 Cornell-educated Taro Seki returns to Japan just as the war party gains control. He hopes to work for American engineer O Hara, and falls for his secretary Tama, but he is drafted. War service in China finally hardens Taro to atrocities, and he returns to Japan a changed man. His father, now a cabinet minister, feels remorse at what war has done to his son and country, but too late to save Taro s foreign friends.