Farewell to Dream

A comingofage story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions Sixteenyearold Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor His parents are fishmongers and Yoichi lives together with them and his four siblings in cramped living conditions His beloved younger sister is given to a wealthy childless uncle his best friend moves away the girl he fell in love with from afar is with someone else little by little Yoichi loses all the people that are important to him