Tetsujirô Ono

As a family-run confectionery shop in Kagoshima struggles to stay in business with increasing competition from local supermarkets, the family's three daughters experience various troubles in their private lives.

A young travel writer wagers with friends and sets off with only maps—beginning a bus-only journey from Delhi toward London, swept up in Asia’s heat and change.

Crossing from Iran into Turkey, Sawaki reaches Istanbul, then Greece and onward through Italy, Spain and Portugal—dealing with dwindling cash and a stolen passport as the journey closes in on its end.