1933, Tokyo. The recession caused by the Great Depression continued, and poverty and unemployment were spreading through society.

While proletarian literature depicting social contradictions and the lives of workers flourished, the government was strictly wary of ideologies such as socialism and communism, and surveillance and crackdowns by the Tokko (Special Higher Police) were strengthening.

Among them, Takiji Kobayashi was one of the writers being watched by the authorities. And you were a friend of such a man.

You know what Takiji writes and what he thinks. You had a faint inkling that he was being monitored by the police.

—That is why, recently, it had become difficult to even meet casually as you used to.

One evening. Takiji and you entered a small cafe, trying to avoid public notice.