"The very word, "geisha" means artist, to be a geisha is to be judged as a moving work of art."
Nitta Sayuri is a girl from a poor fishing villiage, with a tragic past of loss and pain grows to become on of Japan's most celebrated post-war Geisha.
"At a temple there is a poem called, "Lost", but it is scratched out, you cannot read loss, only feel it"
When a girl who has nothing transformed into one of Japan's most celebrated Geisha, the story of forbidden love and heart break ensue within her Okiya (A Geisha home), Town, and Heart.