The story is about a boy that moved to California from Japan. His relationship with his parents becomes strained when he moves to California. In the time, he is in California, his father’s company collapses and his mother dies. His mother passes away, because he eat a fish called Fugu. The fish is a deadly fish, you can eat it but you have to remove the poisoned bags carefully, otherwise it will kill you. It is an autumn day, 2 years after his mother’s dead, he returns to Japan. In the car ride home, his father tells him the circumcisions of his mother’s dead and the story of how a man in the company killed him self. When they come home, they go to the tearoom and waits for his sister, Kikuko to come home from her university. Kikuko is happy to see her brother, but becomes very nervous around their father, and answers all questions with short answers. The father starts making the Supper while Kikuko and the boy goes out to the garden and down to the well. Here they talk about thow Kikuko has a boyfriend that want’s to go to America, but she isn’t sure if she should go with him or not. They also talk about how Watanabe killed him self, and his whole family. They go back into the house and the father tells Kikuko to make supper, while he shows the house to the boy. While showing him the house, the father keeps on saying that his sister is a good girl, and he can come back and live in the house. At the supper they eat fish, and the boy sees a picture of his mother, but doesn’t recognize her. After the supper Kikuko makes them a pot of tea, while the father and his boy goes into the tearoom. Here they talk about how he can come live in the house, and that the father is sure that his son will return to America. The father also says that the mothers dead wasn’t a coincidence, she died because she had many disappointments and