Self-serving adults and broken dreams push a teenage boy trapped in a dead-end town closer and closer toward the abyss.Reiji’s life is as miserable as the small town he can’t escape. The most interesting thing that’s ever happened there is a double suicide down by the river. Does Reiji have any power over his fate, or will he too fall into the abyss?As Reiji grapples with Gen’s latest act of violence, Chako’s parents fight to save their daughter from herself. Meanwhile, Ms. Shiba is back to her old tricks, and this time her target is Reiji’s former lover, Nagi. Then Reiji hears yet another story about who his father is, this time from his rarely lucid grandmother…
