A nonfiction account of half a century of independent disabled people's activism, centered on the cerebral palsy movement Aoi Shiba. The author writes from long involvement as both helper and reporter, examining the difficulty of relationships between disabled and nondisabled people.

A record of people who fought from a place outside society's front-facing path, like crabs walking sideways.

A nonfiction work extending the concerns of the documentary films A and A2, reconsidering Aum Shinrikyo, society, and the post-incident gaze in prose. It enters difficult boundaries around harm, faith, media, and justice.

It keeps asking what post-incident society chose to see and what it left unseen.