Mitamura encounters Sara atop the Empire State Building and asks her about the van Gogh's "Sunflowers" painting which Mitamura, as the new director of the Tokyo Takada Museum presented to the museum one year earlier. The damaged phantom "Sunflowers" painting was believed burned and lost during World War II. Later, a woman from a wealthy Arab family asks Fujita to obtain the phantom "Sunflowers" painting on her behalf...