Set in the Shimanto River basin in Kochi, it follows Atsuyoshi, a shy boy growing up under the care of a poor yet warm family. Against a landscape where nature and everyday life are close, the boy’s shifting feelings from spring into summer emerge with quiet warmth.

Against the backdrop of the Shimanto River, a shy boy grows stronger.

Modeled on the Toyoda Shoji scandal, it traces a young businessman’s fall from the peak of money and desire toward ruin. The presence of a female programmer who plays at being “God” on a computer broadens the novel into a bold portrait of an era’s madness.

It races from the peak of a money game toward ruin.