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Born in Japan in 1991 and adopted by a Japanese American family in Torrance, California, Camryn Sugita writes a blog titled My Adoption Story (@myadoptionstory) and sits down with Toshiki to talk about her experience. For many adoptees, reconnecting with their birth family is a distant goal, but for Camryn, that's where her story starts. In the summer of 2017, together with her adoptive family, she visits Takamatsu in Kagawa Prefecture to meet her birth mother, her half sister Sei, and her half brother. Upon returning to the US, Camryn meets Sophie Spiegel, a member of the New York Japanese American community who was born in Japan the same year as Camryn and was also adopted by a Japanese American family. Two introverts, Camryn and Sophie quickly become friends, and Sophie shares that meeting Camryn has encouraged her to seek more information about the circumstances of her own adoption. Camryn's upbringing in Southern California, surrounded by Japanese language and culture, contributed to her confidence to talk openly about her identity as a transnational adoptee, and at age 23, she gave a speech detailing her adoption for the Nisei Week Queen and Court competition. Camryn shares that, after a series of events following the speech over the next year, her half sister Sei contacts her via social media, eventually leading to their in-person meeting in Takamatsu. The pieces of Camryn's adoption story fall into place.