Seventeen-year-old Akaiko leaves her mother during a trip through Singapore and Malaysia and takes refuge at a friend's seaside villa. Her flight from the fear of food accumulating inside her body explores urgent feelings about appetite and the body.

To escape the food of everyday life, a girl slips away from her mother in the middle of a journey.

Uncanny bodily changes, including a childhood friend's tapeworm and an animal-like presence in a lover's eye, expose the unease in human relationships. This Shincho Newcomer Award-winning story uses vivid imagination to cast adolescence in a grotesque light.

A tapeworm in a childhood friend's gut. A beast in a lover's eye. A startling new talent arrives.