Apartment 408, a single room on the edge of the city. The tenants who come and go each carry their own circumstances, yet they all disappear from the room in unexpected ways. This winner of the 66th Gunzo New Writer Literary Award is structured as four interconnected chapters, portraying the anxiety and fear lurking in everyday life through fantastical tales.

All the residents of this room disappear--a story of everyday unease transforming into terror, set in a single apartment in the city.

Tamaki, a high school girl burdened with migraine headaches, has parents consumed by anxiety over her mother's repeated infertility treatments. Carrying an overwhelmed heart, she visits a local Bound Jizo statue, where she meets Shizuku, who carries her own heavy burden. Winner of the 66th Gunzo New Writer Literary Award, this novel portrays the painful yet tender shapes that family love takes amid the secrets of a stepfamily.

We have secrets surrounding our family. Hurting and being hurt, yet caring for each other. The piercing shape of family love.