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The protagonist, Bird, is a young man with a vague dream of traveling to Africa. His life is disrupted when his wife gives birth to a son with a severe brain hernia—a protrusion that makes the baby’s head appear to have a second, smaller skull. The doctors are grim; the child will likely die or live with severe intellectual disabilities.

Together, they hatch a plan to have a shady doctor "dispose" of the baby so they can flee to Africa together. The Crisis of Conscience a personal matter kenzaburo oe pdf