Tokuyama, a student preparing to retake university entrance exams, meets Hatsumi at a cabaret club and receives a message saying, “Call me when you want to die.” Drawn into her accounts of cruelty and her invitation to ruin, he gradually loses his ties to everyday life.

“Call me when you want to die. Anytime.”

After failing his graduate-school entrance exam, Honma lives in his grandfather's house and writes fiction. He is unsettled when Moiparacia, the protagonist of his own story, dies beyond his intention. While caring for Altad, the boy's lizard that emerges from the manuscript, Honma keeps questioning what it means to write, create a story, and live.

A young man living with a lizard that emerged from his story moves closer to the roots of writing and living.