A novel in which graduate student Okada Isshin helps sort the belongings of the legendary film actress Waraku Kyoko, also known as Ishida Suzuko, and comes to know her life in cinema and memories of the atomic bombing. Through an exchange across generations, it quietly explores Nagasaki, wartime memory, aging, and renewal.

A veteran actress and a graduate student open up the memories of Nagasaki and the atomic bombing through their exchange.