This novel alternates between "A Bouquet for Workers in ((())) ," in which a young man named So Yokota records the people working in a cafeteria, and "A Place Where Film Subtitles Are Easy to See," narrated by Etsuko Arihara. Through the overlapping acts of recording and sketching, translation and interpretation, it reconsiders labor, language, and relations with others.

An experimental debut that explores how language records and rearranges the world between the acts of documenting and rereading.

A short story by Yuji Nakai, published in the June 2000 issue of Gunzo as an excellent work in the 43rd Gunzo Prize for New Writers.

A 2000 work by Yuji Nakai published in Gunzo.

A work of criticism by Takeshi Ikuta, published in the June 2000 issue of Gunzo. It appeared as a critical essay framed by the question posed in its title.

A critical essay by Takeshi Ikuta, published in Gunzo in 2000.