Anaguma is a short story about Ayumi, a fifty-six-year-old funeral company employee who is assigned to a crematorium in a depopulated village and changes through her work and life there.

Through her days at the crematorium, Ayumi finds her feelings about returning home beginning to shift.

Chihiro Odate's Moyuru Umi was selected as an honorable mention, not as the grand-prize work of the 11th Fumiko Hayashi Literary Prize; it is therefore not listed as an award-winning work.