In Japan, 2500 people die every day from various causes. Do you think you will be one of them? No, of course not. Do you think you will win the lottery? You would like to think so, as would we all. But Sumida is different. He wants the status quo to remain unchanged in every way; to live a normal life, get a normal job, have normal children, and never be anyone fortunate or unfortunate, finding contentment in normalcy. Anyone who disagrees is foolish, doomed to spend their life scraping up a mountain they can never conquer, fated to die in despair wishing things had been better. When his mother kicks his father out of the house and onto the streets, he thinks he will be fine. When his mother leaves him to live with her boyfriend, he makes the best of it. When he realizes that he is no longer average, he strives to make his life worthwhile in the only way he knows how. When the demons in the back of his mind speak to him, he tries his best to ignore them.