Akiyoshi, who aims to become a boxer while living an unsettled life, is asked by his friend Haruo to visit Toko, Haruo's partner who is confined to a hospital bed. Amid sparring at the gym, growing distance from Kasumi, with whom he is having an affair, and the deaths of people close to him, Akiyoshi comes into contact with feelings he cannot fully grasp through body or words.

A coming-of-age novel where the physical sensation of boxing intersects with the time of a young man carrying the deaths of people close to him.