Into the Sun

“Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be.” ― Carroll Bryant.

1938. The world was still reeling from Amelia Earhart’s disappearance a year earlier when another aviation mystery unfolded. Pan American Airways’ Hawaii Clipper vanished en route to Manila, just as Japan’s military is flexing its muscles. Like Earhart, the Hawaii Clipper and its 15 souls were never found, leaving a void filled with theories on what might have transpired.

Into the Sun reimagines these events from the perspective of Hiroyuki Tajima, a man torn by an inner conflict. As the product of a Japanese father and Chinese mother, he carries a deep sense of shame towards his Japanese heritage. When his beloved maternal grandmother pleads for him to transport money to China in support of their country’s struggle, he reluctantly agrees. Little does he know that this decision will lead him to a fateful journey on the doomed flight, where he begins to suspect his fellow passengers aren’t all they seem.

The Japanese rescue Hiroyuki after they shoot the Clipper down over the Pacific, where he is transported to Tokyo and forced to survive among the very people he resents. But his experiences during the war—including a tumultuous love affair—slowly change his perspective in ways he hadn’t anticipated.