Do you want a story? Follow the white hare with amber eyes. The famous English ceramic artist takes up his pen to trace the path of his family - and the collection of netsuke keychains that accompanied it in its wanderings. The author, moving from Tsarist Odessa to the Paris of the Impressionists and Proust, from Vienna captured by the Nazis to Tokyo occupied by the Americans, tells true stories about a lost and found home, about how fragile life is and how the history of humanity is woven from the stories of people.