Asura

Famine has reduced Kyoto to a place where survival leaves little room for kindness. Abandoned as an infant, Asura has grown into a feral child who meets the world with hunger and violence. Encounters with a wandering monk and a young woman named Wakasa introduce him to something he has never understood: care freely given.

As he begins to speak and form attachments, the city around him remains desperate. The instincts that kept Asura alive collide with his first uncertain steps toward human companionship, in a world where even ordinary people are struggling to hold on to compassion.