Roadside Stone

The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque coldhearted father and a submissive mother The year is 1910 and the place is a small Japanese village Goichi is suffering because he wants to go to school but his family is too poor to afford that luxury Even when a kind friend agrees to help out Goichis father refuses to give in to his sons request for an education Instead he sends Goichi off to work as an indentured servant for a coldhearted merchant and his family As tragedy strikes and the suffering of the young boy increases he begins to look for some way out of his bleak situation