Moonshadows

Kazenoko Takebayashi is slowly coming undone. She has just left her husband, uprooted her two young children, and hauled everyone across town to a new apartment, a new school, a new life. She can't count on any support from her ex, even as she knows the presence of their daughters will keep him annoyingly in her life. She'll have to discover her own way for the ends to meet and everything to click together. Yet she's convinced that this was the right choice, and that it is - or will anyway prove to be - for the best. Will it? "Moonshadows" is Kazenoko's story told in her own words, a diary of her thoughts, feelings, perspectives, and efforts as she struggles in an unfair world and reflects on the fate laid bare at her feet. Could she have taken another path than the one she did? Would it have helped? As the pressures mount and her daily worries close in Kazenoko sinks into an emotional breakdown, becoming both sacrifice and sacrificer on life's altar. Depression, madness, suicide, murder, all pass through her in the constant striving to find some meaning and make some sense, to attain some peace with having been born. She never asked for any of it, and there's so little she can control; can she at least preserve herself?