In the late Meiji period, the main character Ushimatsu SEGAWA, born into a buraku community, grew up under his father's commandment to keep his birth and social status concealed all his life.
明治後期、被差別部落に生まれた主人公・瀬川丑松は、その生い立ちと身分を隠して生きよ、と父より戒めを受けて育った。