A novella in which the quiet daily life of an elderly barber and his wife turns unsettling through past death and guilt. The debut volume pairs the title work with Zansho no Yukue.

Behind an elderly couple's quiet life in a rural town, a pain thought forgotten wakes again.

A finalist-prize work from the Hayashi Fumiko Literary Award. It was announced alongside Tiger Rihatsuten Shinju and is connected to Akemi Kinutani's later concern with finding light beneath human difficulty.

It looks toward the light that remains beneath a life that does not go as planned.