Yoshitaka Nishiyama

Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close friends.

At a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent family, and Yamazaki, son of an engineer at the local nuclear power-plant, are found tied-to on a beach, as if they intended to commit double suicide. Nogami, a reporter, begins to investigate.