A fantastical novel in which the time of gods, humans, and small living things crosses the horizon of the present. Centered on the search around an old text, it lets the borders between this world and the other side, the self and the beyond, waver through Satoko Hiwa's poetic language.

Beyond an old manuscript, the times of gods, humans, and small creatures overlap.

After being betrayed by his girlfriend and a friend, the part-time worker narrator heads to the sea and encounters strange events. Sumito Yamashita's first book deliberately unsettles narrative conventions as reality, memory, and bodily sensation merge.

At the sea reached after betrayal, the narration begins to come apart in unexpected ways.