This is about a rich Japanese family starting to live in Shanghai in 1936 just before the war Japan-China break down. Haru, the young girl will discover another culture in a country highly hostile to her. Hopefully, she will meet a young chinese who will soon become her first and only friend. Step by step she will open to this country and its people. But the war is just around the corner.

Kubote Rio is a young girl who was proclaimed a violin genius. It looked like a future promised as a performer, but when she lost sight of her goal and got bogged down and frightened on the stage, she escaped to her mother's countryside… The boy Rinne met in the area, Ten Asakura, had a genius "ear." A girl who lost sight of a sound and a boy who seeks a sound. The meeting of two people makes harmony in the sky high country town! Authentic string story!

*Note: Originally published as a one-shot in Gessan under the title "Tokyo Harapeko Sanpo (東京はらぺこさんぽ)" on January 12, 2023. It was then picked up for serialization on June 12, 2024 under the current title.*