14 year old Nakamura is sexually abused by her stepfather. She invents a friend who is coming to her rescue when she really needs it.
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Mami Nakamura
Shizuko Tanaka
Kaori Momoi
Akemi Tanaka
Michio Akiyama
Ryoji Saito
Masaaki Daimon
Hiroshi Masuda
Yoshio Harada
Shizuo Tanaka
Ken Kaneko
Shizuo
Ayumi Yajima
Tomoe Tanaka
Kohei Urasawa
Hiroki Masuda
Yukiko Kashiwagi
Miki Masuda
Seiroku Nakazawa
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