This story is set in Japan in the 1920�s and follows the life of a nineyear-
old Japanese boy named Takeru Kitagawa, who was forced to
endure a childhood of psychological abuse, and who later, following
the attempted rape of his mother by a yakusa gang member, he was
cruelly mutilated for trying to defend her. As a consequence, he
sustained a cruel and malicious life-changing injury, which in turn
led to his mother�s subsequent decision to abandon him. Takeru now
finds himself completely alone, in discomfort and pain, and now
abandoned, he is left to survive on his own, and fearful in his desolate
home. Whilst he struggled to cope with his debilitating injury as a
eunuch, he tries his hardest to survive in the cruelest of situations.
Ultimately, he ends up being sent to a Yokohama orphanage by the
authorities, which was located some distance away from his old home
in Spring Village. The only glimmer of hope that he was left with
was to seek out his grandfather, who he had never met and who he
was told, lived somewhere down south in Wakayama prefecture. We
are able to follow his life�s twists and turns and with him, explore his
emotional journey, as he transitions from being male to being seen
as female.