


All around them, friends and neighbors, teachers and classmates, turn against the Nakaoka family. As Gen's father becomes increasingly outspoken against the war, he is labeled as a traitor to the Empire along with Gen and the rest of his family.

Six-year-old Gen Nakaoka lives with his father-who is adamantly opposed to the war that is claiming the lives of so many of his fellow countrymen-his mother, his sister Eiko, and his younger brother Shinji his two older brothers, Akira and Koji, have evacuated to the country and gone to work in the munitions factories, respectively.
