Original Story
Ayako is a 7-year-old girl with a dark, tanned face and a somewhat mysterious expression on her face. She shows up at the elementary school and acts strangely, but the children don't know her name and just call her "that girl". There are two groups of children at the elementary school, and the conflict between the groups intensifies...
Original Story
A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and then the boy she likes loses everything when his factory fails. She takes all her savings out of the bank and offers them to him to make a new start. He refuses at first but eventually agrees and so she goes back to school to tell her teacher that she has decided not to continue college, that she is young and strong, and can make her own way in life.
Novel
Промышленный пригород Токио живет совсем не так, как столица. Здесь есть работа, но есть и бедность, и конкуренция, и иммигранты из Кореи, и социалисты, и бандиты. Очень трудно вырваться из бедности и перейти на более высокий уровень жизни. Школьница Дзюн отличается работоспособностью, сообразительностью, прилежностью. Она хотела бы поступить в гимназию, хотя никто в её семье не получил законченного среднего образования. Удастся ли ей осуществить свою мечту?
