A man loses both arms at seventeen and decides the world still needs to hear from him. Tsuneo doesn't inspire you by overcoming, he inspires you by refusing to stop working, stop writing, stop being useful to people who have nothing left. The film never turns his amputation into a metaphor or a lesson. It just watches him pick up a pen with his mouth and get to work, and that unbearable dignity is the entire story.

Seventeen-year-old Takae Tsuneo's world changes in an instant when he is electrocuted while installing power lines. The accident costs him sight in his right eye, and both of his arms must be amputated. Rather than give up, he commits himself to poetry and literature and practices writing with a pen held in his mouth. He later becomes a newspaper reporter and turns his attention to other people living with disabilities, helping to establish a place for them in Akabira City, Hokkaido. The animated biographical drama recounts the life of a real man who answered a devastating loss by working for others.