The novel "Buddha in the Attic" by Japanese American writer J. Otsuka is based on real 20th century novels. the life stories of the Japanese emigrants who went to Tokyo at the beginning: after the First World War, Japanese men sailed to San Francisco to look for work - later some of them returned to Japan after earning, others stayed in America and started to start families. They sent a photo (not necessarily real) to Japan and waited for the bride who chose her future husband from the photo. The author follows in the footsteps of "photo brides" - travels with them on a grueling boat trip to America, observes the first meeting with her future husband, the collapse of dreams of a magical life in America. The daily rituals last until the fateful morning of Pearl Harbor, after which the Japanese in America were evicted en masse from their homes, taken away and buried - they simply disappeared like a fog, as if they had never existed.

The performance is based on the principle of traditional Japanese theater, where the story is told by combining dance, movement, text and live music on stage. In this way, a unique stage language of signs is created (the director and performer of the performance, Birutė Mar, studied traditional Japanese theater and dance in Tokyo), which tells the story of one's roots, the connection with the past and ancestors in the era of the mixing of the nations of the world, about the nation's identity as strength and a way to survive.