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In southern Japan Tamiko spends her time writing in her diary dreaming of making theatrical costumes and praying her brother Kyo makes it back from the war She wishes she could be brave like him and help the war effortIn rural Oregon Nellie spends her time lying in the grass studying the stars and wishing for her pa to return from the war She also wishes the boy next door Joey would talk to her again like he used toSoon the girls lives become inextricably linkedTamiko and her classmates are brought to a damp repurposed theater to make large paper balloons to help the militaryNo one knows what they are forNellie and her classmates ration food work in salvage drives and support their communityNo one knows whats comingBased on Japans Project FuGo during the last stretch of World War II The Sky We Shared uses the alternating perspectives of Nellie and Tamiko to depict the shared tragedies of two countries at war