A novel about Kiku and Hashi, two boys abandoned in coin lockers, and the destructive forces that shape their lives. Moving from an island to Tokyo, the stage, and the deep sea, it fuses longing for the mother, violence, music, and the desire to break the city apart into a dense visionary narrative.

A life that begins in a coin locker swells into a story of destruction and liberation that shakes the city itself.

A young man who has wandered the world returns to Japan and meets a girl who has run away from home, restless in her own youth, amid the bustle of the city. Through their life together and the birth of a child, the novel vividly blends love, sexuality, death, and a sense of nature as young bodies try to take in the world.

The meeting of two young people moves through the noise of the city toward the radiance of life.