Marimo leaves university and begins working at a café that seems left behind by time. As she makes a habit of watching the lights in the windows across the street, the novel follows her unsettled feelings and her wanderings through the night city.

The lives visible beyond the windows quietly unsettle Marimo's world.

A coming-of-age novel about Tomomi, a middle-school student who cannot find a place at home or at school and confronts her stifling daily life through the image of a grim reaper and a machine gun that appears in her dreams.

The machine gun handed to a girl in her dreams illuminates a resistance she cannot yet put into words.