After an accident while clearing drains in Tokyo, Kuzano returns to his hometown and sets out with a camel named Cassandre for an illusory town beyond the desert. Moving between real Tokyo and a mythic desert, this epic novel portrays the time and memory that run through a family line.

Back in his hometown, Kuzano heads with a camel toward an illusory town beyond the desert.

On the night of his sixteenth birthday, Sho Mashiba meets a classmate known as “Morphine” in a park. The proud yet urgent words of high school students pass between them at the pace of their own lives.

The proud and noble words of high school students fly about at the speed of their lives.