This novel follows Yoshinobu Hayashi, born in a mountain village in Osaka Prefecture, as he flees poverty and family collapse for Tokyo, pursues a dream of becoming an actor, and gradually loses his way through cohabitation and life with his father. It depicts a young man cornered between province and city, family and desire, aspiration and the weight of ordinary life.

A young man who comes to Tokyo dreaming of becoming an actor gradually loses his way amid desire and the burdens of family.

A full-length adventure novel by Koji Tanaka set in Korea. The protagonist, Kazuto Go, is trapped in Seoul by a false antiquities-smuggling charge and is offered release on the condition that he seize a Silla crown hidden in North Korea. Through his crossing of the 38th parallel as part of a covert team, the novel depicts political tension, conspiracy, and survival under extreme conditions.

A trap that begins with a smuggling charge turns into a desperate mission into North Korea.