This novel is set in a small obstetrics and gynecology clinic on the Miura Peninsula and follows Dr. Sadaharu Nobeji as he stands at the scenes of birth and abortion. Through the daily work of an atheist doctor guided by his own ethics, it enters the contradictions of modern life around dignity, sex, pregnancy, and abortion.

From the daily work of a doctor who lends his hands to both birth and death, the novel asks about the dignity of life and modern ethics.