Set against a postwar rural landscape and the sensitivities of boyhood, this title story brings together memories of people and place. Its plain scenery quietly reveals the pain of growing up and the shadows of everyday life.

Through a boy's eyes, the bridge becomes a boundary joining village life to a distant world.

This short story follows a middle-aged woman searching for crabs with her young nephew on the Sotobo coast. Beneath the calm seaside setting, it opens onto a complex inner world of attachment to children, shame, and loneliness.

A seaside game illuminates the bent desire and loneliness lying deep within the woman.