<B>Self-serving adults and broken dreams push a teenage boy trapped in a dead-end town closer and closer toward the abyss.</B><BR><BR>Reiji’s life is as miserable as the small town he can’t escape. The most interesting thing that’s ever happened there is a double suicide down by the river. Does Reiji have any power over his fate, or will he too fall into the abyss?<BR><BR>Author Kosaku Esemori met Reiji’s mother when he first arrived in their miserable backwater as a teenager, which begs the question: who is Reiji and his abusive older brother’s real father? Then, it turns out Reiji and Nagi aren’t the only ones in town with suicidal ideation. Is it true that a double suicide unites two souls as one? (Hint: The answer is no.)