Makoto and Kiyoshi's generation follows their desires. She's in high school when he, a university student, rescues her from an older man's assault. The next day he takes her out, is alternately cruel and tender, insists roughly on sex, then discards her. The next week she calls him; as she's waiting for him at a bar, two pimps accost her. Again Kiyoshi rescues Makoto, and their affair begins in earnest. She moves in with him and keeps going to school, and they support themselves by extorting money from men who offer her rides, then make passes, and Kiyoshi show up to batter them. Things are semi-OK until pregnancy and a short jail stay change their relationship.
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