After spending sixteen years in prison for a crime of the heart, Shiro Kikutani is released into a world he no longer recognizes.
Kikutani takes comfort in the numbin.
In a spare yet powerful style, Akira Yoshimura paints the psychology of a quiet man navigating his way through the unsuspected traumas of freedom-finding a job, finding a home, even something as simple as buying an alarm clock.
He must readjust to the bright and vigorous stimulus of Tokyo while fending off his own dark memories.
After spending sixteen years in prison for a crime of the heart, Shiro Kikutani is released into a world he no longer recognizes