Rakkagiri is a trusted caporegime in the Liotta family—dutiful, devout, and unflinchingly loyal. His life is defined by silence, ritual, and the careful containment of feeling. Then comes the order: eliminate a liability. And the target is Keiseimaru.

Keiseimaru is everything Rakkagiri is not: volatile, elusive, sharp-tongued, and dangerously beautiful. Once an informant, now a threat, Keiseimaru knows too much—and worse, he’s the man Rakkagiri once loved without ever saying the words aloud.

As old wounds reopen and loyalties falter, the two men find themselves drawn back into each other’s orbit. In the shadows of a brutal world that punishes softness, their bond reignites—not in redemption, but in reckoning. What begins as duty unravels into memory, grief, and a final, irreversible act of mercy.

Sentimental Fools is a quiet tragedy about queer longing, impossible love, and what remains when affection is forced to live in silence. Lyrical, atmospheric, and unflinchingly intimate, it’s a story of two men who never asked to be saved—and the gunshot that made sure no one would be.

Thomas Woodhill

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