Sumire is a sixteen year old girl who goes to high school. She always puts others before herself and keeps her cheer no matter what. There's one other thing, though - she's actually a ventriloquist puppet handled by a much older man (implied to be somewhere in his fourties by his appearance). Not once, however, does she - or he - break character, despite getting called out, bullied, beaten up etc. - it's always Sumire at her sixteen year old self. I admit it's been one of the most emotionally touching things I've ever read. It pulls on the secret strings in your heart that youmay have never known existed. It's completely unrealistic, on the one hand - on the other, the character chemistry that it pulls off manages to strike as something that goes beyond realism: a poetry of the mind.