Yuka, a high school student raised in a potters’ village, finds her daily life unsettled by rumors about a transfer student from Tokyo. The novel traces the fixed rhythm of place and the changes of adolescence through signs as fragile as a paper airplane.

In an unchanging potters’ village, a girl’s heart begins to move.

Lonely Kanko meets Fusuke, who calls a flat stone in an empty lot “the table of the Yamato shijimi butterfly.” Through a warm relationship beyond blood ties, the story portrays childhood loneliness and mutual support.

The name of a small table gives a lonely child a place to belong.