This story stars in a pottery town called Shigaraki in 1970s where no woman is allowed to have her own kiln.Kiyoko Koyama and her husband are both potters there but he runs away with his young mistress.She decides to bring up her daughter and son by herself pursing her career as a women potter.after many failures, she finally succeeds in creating pottery of natural glaze she was longing for. But her hardship continues when her son suffers from leukimea. Only way to save him is transplant operation of suitable bone narrow, which even she and her doughter do not have . Thus, she decides to be a holly mother and a demon at the same time.
