Boredom and helplessness grow in the ordinary days of a group of young people, who are drawn to a casually spoken word, death, and head for the sea in northern Japan. The title story portrays their loneliness and impulse toward death through an apparently motiveless plan for collective suicide, in a detached and poetic style.

Drawn by the word death, a group of young people heads for the sea in northern Japan.

This work is recorded as a shortlisted candidate for the 2nd Dazai Osamu Prize, not as the winning work.