绿树环绕的小山村，因为战争的严重迫害，村民对美英两国存在着强烈的敌视情绪。故事的主人公——一名叫做英子少女从横滨转学来到这个小村庄。因为父亲是美国人，英子遗传了一双蓝色的眼瞳。这双天空一样美丽颜色的眼瞳让她受尽了同学的欺负。除了班主任秋子以外，学校的老师和学生对英子的遭遇嘲笑讽刺觉得她活该。然而，在转学前一天见过英子的健太，却对英子产生了强烈的好奇心。他无法对这一切视而不见，于是帮助英子寻找被同学扔掉的父亲遗留给英子的挂链。健太的举动被同级生发现之后受到了嘲笑。而后乐观开朗的英子来到健太和他的朋友们常来的游乐场，男孩们在和英子的接触中，发现了英子不输给男孩的行动力，不知不觉的，英子和健太的朋友们也成了很好的伙伴。然而有一天，健太的好友则夫的父亲因为受伤回到村里，紧接着，村民们陆续受到了亲人的阵亡通知书。面对亲人的去世，人们的憎恨越积越盛。孩子们将无法发泄的仇恨都报复在英子身上。而想要保护英子的健太，在面对友人的不幸时也沉默了。这个时候，一场突如其来的空袭使英子和健太都失去了母亲，举目无亲的英子还将被抓到俘虏收容所去，宪兵来抓人的那一天，英子和健太决定开始他们的逃亡生涯——

The story is set in a village in the southern Japanese prefecture of Kōchi during World War II. Even in this remote mountainous area, the perception of American and British people as "brutes" has taken root, due to the deaths and injuries among the villagers' relatives. A elementary schoolgirl named Eiko transfers from the city of Yokohama to this village. Eiko happens to have blue eyes from her American father, and her classmates make no attempt to rein in their bullying. Other than Eiko's homeroom teacher Akiko, even the teachers view Eiko the same way that the children do. However, a boy named Kenta views Eiko more with curiosity than with hostility. The children's lives change as the injured father of one of Kenta's classmates returns from the battlefield and news of more casualties arrives in the village.