Barefoot Gen anorondedzera kubhomba kweHiroshima kubva pakuona kwemukomana mudiki, Gen, nemhuri yake. Asi madingindira ebhuku (iro panyama uye nepfungwa kukuvara vanhuwo zvavo vanotambura neicho chaicho chehondo) rinonzwika rinotyisa zvechokwadi nhasi. Gen nemhuri yake vagara vachirwira pasina chikafu chakawanda, mari kana mushonga, asi kunyangwe paine matambudziko, ivo vanoedza kuchengetedza chimiro chehupenyu hwakajairika. Vakuru vakaneta uye vava pedyo nekupererwa; vana vanotora zvehondo uye nzara zvakanyanya kana zvishoma mukukwira. Nakazawa, akapona muHiroshima, anonyatsoratidza kushushikana kwekugara munzvimbo ino uye anoratidza maitiro ekuramba uchirova mumamiriro ezvinhu akaomarara dzimwe nguva anoratidza semunhu anoseka, asina musoro. Iyo nyaya inopa tariro: vatambi vanoita zviito zvekuzvipira nekuda kwevavakidzani nevadiwa (semuenzaniso, amai vaGen vane pamuviri pavanorwara nekushaya chikafu, iye nemukoma wake vanoita senherera uye vanoita mumigwagwa, vachikanda mari pamusoro madziro eimba yavo kuti vasazobatwa). Pasi peichi chimiro chekugona-kuita ndeyevabereki vane mhosva huru uye pfungwa yekushaya rubatsiro. Kana vana vakadanidzira vachifara pamusoro pechimedu chechikafu, vabereki vanoparara nekunyara uye neshungu. Unyanzvi hwacho hunodhonzwa zvakanyanya uye hunotaura, uye rondedzero ine mutinhimira wakadai, zviri nyore kukwezvwa muhupenyu hwemhuri, zvichiita kuti vaverengi ve cataclysm vazive zvakavamirira zvakanyanya, zvepedyo uye zvakaoma kutora. Kunyangwe pahunhu hunotyisa, iri basa rakakosha kune izvo zvidzidzo zvarinopa munhoroondo, hunhu uye tsitsi.
