In 1945, as World War II is nearing its end, Japanese pilot Koichi Shikishima encounters an unearthly sea monster that the locals of Odo Island refer to as Godzilla. Wracked with survivor's guilt for not only being unable to shoot the creature with his plane's mounted guns, but also abandoning his job position as a kamikaze pilot, Shikishima finds solace through Noriko, a woman who survived the air raids on Tokyo, and Akiko, an orphaned baby girl. As the years tick by, Shikishima slowly opens up to Noriko and the others around him, but all the while, his past experience with a now-mutated and irradiated Godzilla will return to haunt him as the entirety of Japan is plunged into further despair and terror.

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