Even when speaking to someone face to face, the narrator posts everything she wants to say to her blog from her phone. Through a daily life in which real conversation slips out of step with words on a screen, the novel captures the feel of a virtual age that is neither blood nor ketchup.

The narrator sends her words to a screen before speaking them, unsettling the boundary between everyday life and the internet.

Shinji, who works at a sales office, is ordered by his senior colleagues to spend his lunch break at a hospital and report on a silent daytime drama. The story he constructs from images alone intertwines with relationships at work, as the gap between seeing and hearing unsettles the daily lives of three people facing separation.

A lunchtime game of deciphering a silent daytime drama slowly changes the boundary between reality and story.