Book Description | The events of this novel take place in a family setting of a noble family in Japan, where a girl lives with her sick mother, one of the noblewomen of Japan, after her father had died a long time ago. This girl suffers from the feeling that her mother does not give her the same love that she gives to her brother who is abroad and lives far away from them, and thus she renews her constant desire to escape away from her mother. However, her mother's illness and her struggle on her deathbed delay this step but do not cancel it, and this coincides with the son's return to settle in the family home, after he had accumulated many debts due to his drinking day and night, then his suicide after his mother's death and leaving his will to his sister, who had arranged for her to escape in search of a man who would be a reason for her happiness |