Toshinosuke Nagao

A man returns from World War II to find his desperate wife had resorted to one night of prostitution to pay for their son's hospital bills.

Magazine reporters Hiroyuki Kurosaki and his colleagues brought back to Japan a monster child who had just hatched from an egg issued on the isolated island of Obelisk in the South Sea.

Two journalists and their lovers share an uncertain future.

He was an on-board doctor. As he was about to reach the Taiwanese piers of Kinmon Island, thoughts of his days in Japan crossed his mind - he reminisced about the Taiwanese girl, Yan.