Mitsuro Nishimura, a Hiroshima-born painter who pursues his own paintings on the main stage in Tokyo and Ikebukuro (Ikebukuro Montparnasse) in the 1930s and 1940s, continues to work against the forced images of the wartime military department. Eventually they are pushed to the battlefield one after another. It was Nishimura who tried to continue writing even though it was on the battlefield .... A story of artists who lived in the turbulent Showa era, drawing on the model of a half-life of a war-old painter, Aimitsu.