Yun Ling, the only survivor of the camp, meets again in Cameron Highlands ( a mountain resort in Malaysia where they grow tea), friends of her parents and their Japanese neighbour, a former gardener of the Imperial Court. Ling Yun asked him to create a garden in memory of her sister who was fascinated by these works of art. Aritomo refuses but agrees to take Yun Ling as an apprentice for her to lay out a garden in the future.

Successive episodes, flashbacks highly controlled between the Japanese camp and Cameron Highlands and Aritomo and finally the recent period (around 1986) where Yun Ling, Judge of the Supreme Court, is taking early retirement. She wants to write her story and that of her sister before a neurological disease does deprive her of her memory and ability, after the death of Aritomo to restore the garden “Evening Mists” to its former magnificence.