Yasumoto Noboru completed three years of medical studies in Nagasaki where he learned the latest advances in Western medicine. He expects to be appointed to the position of a doctor for the shogunate. To his dismay, the ambitious young doctor will spend the next year as an apprentice doctor at a public charity clinic run by a crusty, old doctor nicknamed Red Beard. What lessons will Red Beard teach Noboru during this tumultuous year? The...