A year ago, his family went bankrupt. His parents went into hiding to escape their creditors, leaving him alone to hold the family together. The only one by his side was the girl who had been his childhood sweetheart. During a fight with a creditor, his face was disfigured, and afterward his parents sent him away for treatment. A year later, after undergoing plastic surgery, he returned to the city where he had once lived and met her again. He encountered a boy and a girl, and they lived ordinary lives at an ordinary school. The things that have disappeared, and those that have not, gradually begin to blur in the memories we can't bear to let go. The shade of the camphor trees finally covers the road to the past, and with it, our memories. Birds cry as they cut through the sky, and the shattered wounds suddenly seem to grow wider and wider. Time is as if a crack has split open. And so all the things we call sorrow, tears, and memories come pouring out.
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
