Returning to Tsurugi City with her eleven-year-old daughter to care for her ailing father, a famed sword maker, Chigiri Yamazaki, a divorced, single mother, takes it upon herself to preserve her father's failing business and is reunited with Go Imai, a freelance documentary filmmaker visiting Tsurugi where twenty-five years earlier he had done a story on Chigiri's father. 10,000 first printing.