Ijime to Kaeru to Mama to Fukushuu

In the stifling, claustrophobic town of Hoyama, the social hierarchies established during childhood never truly fade. Makoto has spent his entire life trapped beneath them, relentlessly mocked with the cruel nickname "frog" by his peers. Now an adult, he endures a bleak, dreamless existence working long hours at a local factory, resigned to the suffocating reality of his hometown. His sole source of comfort is Miyuki, the mother of his childhood friend Kazuya. Their quiet conversations offer him a fleeting escape from his misery, but this fragile solace is complicated by two painful truths: Miyuki is the wife of the town's mayor, and Kazuya is the very person who tormented Makoto for years. Makoto’s precarious peace shatters when Kazuya, who had previously left Hoyama, unexpectedly returns to town. His arrival plunges Makoto back into a living nightmare, transforming his daily routine into an unbearable ordeal. Just as despair threatens to consume him entirely, Miyuki approaches him with a shocking and unforeseen proposal. Caught between the woman he has secretly fallen in love with and the tormentor who ruined his youth, Makoto is thrust toward a path of dramatic reckoning.