"When your parents fight every night over who's going to pay the bills and the taxes and everything else, you just learn not to give a fuck about anything anymore. There's nothing I can do for my parents, and there's nothing anyone can do about mother fucking Serenity."
Fubuki's boyfriend and possibly her only friend at all, Jirou comes from a poor family in Crystal Tokyo, and he's as heavily into drugs and delinquency as she is. As a member of the truly poor, however--not just someone who takes on the trappings of poverty like Fubuki--Jirou sometimes has a short temper for his girlfriend's tendency to see her life as wretched. Jirou is used to not only having to scrape by for himself because of his parents' constant fighting, but also to taking care of his young brother, Chikao, who is the most frequent victim of his parents abuse...