Based on the drifting of Daikokuya Kodayu and his time in Russia, this historical novel portrays survival, will, and longing for home in a foreign land. Experience in a distant country intertwines with the desire to return to Japan.

Beyond the drift ice, the wish to return home crosses with memories of a foreign land.

A critical work by Taruho Inagaki that discusses the aesthetics directed toward boyhood through literature, fantasy, and bodily perception. Its provocative subject is developed through his distinctive cosmic sensibility.

Through the language of fantasy and aesthetics, it casts a distinctive light on the image of boyhood.