After moving to the countryside with her mother, the protagonist faces her own circumstances amid a same-age cousin and the pressure of a closed rural community.

A girl confronts her own circumstances inside an overly intimate rural community.

Set in a body-lending shop called "Karakadashi," this short story uses a strange premise to explore mother-daughter relationships, women's bodies, and the unruliness of childbirth.

The idea of lending and borrowing bodies gives rise to uneasy questions about mothers, daughters, and living itself.