1958, Hiroshima. À cette époque au Japon, il est difficile pour une jeune femme d'élever seule ses deux fils. Acculée, Hideko décide un jour de confier son plus jeune garçon, Akihiro, à sa mère qui vit à la campagne. Arrivé chez sa grand-mère, une vie complètement nouvelle va commencer pour Akihiro. Pas facile de quitter la ville quand on n'y est pas préparé !
Kanji Name: 島田 洋七. Yoshichi Shimada, Japanese famous comedian and writer. His real name is Akihiro Tokunaga. After the explosion of the atom bombs, the writer’s father died of nuclear radiation. Because his mother couldn’t afford to take care of two sons and work at the same time, he was sent to his grandma’s house in Saga. Although the grandma was so poor in those days, she always had some wonderful ways to go on living and made life full of discovery and laugh.