A gentle fantasy about little Sadako Asawa and Professor Charles Danbury, who met one cold evening in 1944 at the campus where the Professor taught music. Mysteriously, he was inspired to compose a sonata for her. Many Japanese children lost their lives in the great firestorms of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - long before their time. Providence could not allow such waste; thus, their spirits were sent afar on the wings of 1,000 cranes, seeking purpose and need, fulfill such, and ultimately rest in their destiny.