Musuko no Jiritsu (A Son's Independence) follows a mother as she confronts her disabled son's sexuality and independence amid the demands of daily care and the gaze of society. It approaches a subject often treated sensationally with a restrained narrative attentive to the lives of those concerned.

An award-winning work that quietly asks what it means to support independence, through the daily life of a mother and son and the prejudice surrounding them.

Ruri, a high school student whose parents divorced after her father's affair, calls the money he gives her whenever they meet dirty money and struggles with what to do with it. Amid unresolved feelings about her family and time with friends, she begins to reconsider the pain she has carried and the distance between herself and others.

A short story in which Ruri confronts family wounds and her own feelings through the money her father gives her.