The 174th (2025 second half) Naoki Prize nominee. The winner of the 16th Futaro Yamada Award. In 1943 wartime Ise, a lawyer encounters a young girl, whose father faces execution for a family murder he didn't commit. Vowing to prove his innocence, the lawyer risks becoming a criminal himself. A riveting legal mystery of justice, human bonds, and judicial darkness.
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