An unemployed narrator cares for his bedridden grandmother at home, bristling at conflicts with relatives and caregivers while questioning where he belongs. Through cannabis and a torrent of speech, the novel portrays the realities of care, family, and isolation beyond simple moral judgments.

A debut novel that gives urgent, unruly voice to the reality of care beyond moral duty and virtue.

Yukisuke, a university student of archaeology, meets Koyomi, who runs a taiyaki shop near the station, and they gradually grow close. As Koyomi loses the ability to retain new memories, the novel traces their love and the work of living each day amid forgetting.

Even as forgetting accumulates, their time together continues, quietly changing shape.