Kissy Suzuki is a twenty-three-year-old former Japanese movie star. She was characterized as the Japanese Greta Garbo. After making a film at the age of seventeen, she returns to Kuro Island and the Ama way of life as she feels degraded and disrespected by many people in Hollywood, save one, a man named David Niven. She names her pet cormorant, an aquatic bird, after him.