Thsi is basically about 6 completely different children who all had one thing in common : being dumped at an orphanage. Oka, Sayuri, Tatsuo, Yoo, Miyuki and Narumi have different personalities and lived different lives until one day, the same day for them all, something that changed their lives for ever happened. They were each informed that something terrible had happened and they were immidiately whisked away to Madame May's orphanage for derelict children. The orphanage was a tall, dark and dreary place with old, gothic features and the lady running it was the opposite. Bright and full of false smiles on the children's arrival but in her mind horrible, beastly thoughts started to form as she discovered more and more about the children. Anyway, more about the children. Oka and Tatsuo were brother and sister, as close as could be. They shared everything together, even their bed! they were both brought up in a little cottage on the edge of the woods and their lives were based around the animals and the woods itself that formed around their house. Sayuri was born into a very rich family and they lived in the city with her parents who were always away and used the excuse 'Sorry darling, I'm ever so busy today! I've left some money in your room, go and get one of the maids to take you out shopping.' Sayuri was very rich and soon it rubbed off on her and she became horribly spoilt, demanding this and that and throwing tantrums when things weren't done to her insanely high standards. Yoo was the opposite. Well, kind of. He too was born into a rich family but they were close and they had no helpers to run their immensly big house. His mother cooked and cleaned but also worked as head secretary for a very large and popular company. She was sweet and small, plump and bouncy. His father was head director of a film company and always made masses or money from each and every movie he made. He was tall and broad shouldered. He was very competitive when it came to their game evenings but never ever got angry. He had a calm nature and always had a pinch march from where his glasses had squeezed his nose. He did his job off washing up after meals and pruning the bushes in the garden to perfection. Yoo was like a little rabbit, darting here and there, doing odd jobs for his parents and just helping out. He went to school but only four days a week as on Friday was church day for his parents, not Sunday. Miyuki was born oldest and would soon be told that she would have to care for her younger siblings at the age of five. Her family were quite poor but not as poor as Narumi's parents were. They lived in a tiny matchbox apartment and her mother was ill. Soon she had to quit work and stay at home and that was when her father started to drink. At first it was just a bit after a horrible arguement but soon it was just for the sake of drinking. He would come home tipsy and start up arguements with everyone and soon started to hit his daughter and heavily pregnant wife. When one night her mother was badly bruised, Narumi sped her to the nearest docter who clamed she would die. Narumi, heartbroken, realised that she couldn't live with her father alone. But when she got home her neighbour was there along with two strangers. They took her away in their care and explained that her neighbour had reported that her mother was dying and her father was abusive so they took immediate action in arresting her father and taking her mother to hospital.