It started with a storm, and ended with a family destroyed by their village's rigid adherence to tradition. Aichi is forced into adulthood as everything and everyone he knows and loves are taken from him. Left to fend for himself in a familiar world without comfort or promise, he flees from the life that destroyed his childhood. He soon finds he is not just escaping his past, but also discovering himself in the process.
He embarks on a journey he never asked for, down a road he can never look back, as he is forced to meet the ultimate test of survival, courted by love, friendship, knowledge, and disaster.