Classroom conversation and internet-inflected banter reveal the futility of words and the stirrings of desire. As a junior-high-school boy keeps directing excessive language at a girl who barely replies, the story turns his own gaze and self-absorption back upon him.

Included with a companion story that coolly portrays a public uproar in an age when belief alone is treated as truth.

Set on an island fishing village in Nagasaki, the story follows four generations of one family through the voices of women. Voices rising from fraying consciousness and fragments of memory shared by relatives are woven together into a narrative of the land and its people across time.

A family story that stitches together memories held by people and place through spoken voices.