Maihime

In 1885, young Toyotaro Oota, a medical student who dreams of joining the Western elite, is sent to study in Germany. At the Japanese embassy In Benin, he meets the new military attache, Wasaburo Fukushlma, who intends to make his power felt, even controlling the private lives of the Japanese students there. Discovering Elis, sunk in despair by the river because of her father's death and the imminent state of poverty, he comforts her and gives her his pocket watch to pawn. As their relationship develops, Toyotaro drops his official status and remains In Berlin as a private citizen...