This novella observes a family changing over several decades through multiple perspectives, with a father and son at its center. As narrators and relationships shift, memories emerge of happy times, a life fading away, and farewells that cannot be put into words.

A family portrait rendered through multiple perspectives, tracing happy time between parent and child and the light of a life fading away.

Around an incident, even people with no direct connection to it begin to speak with certainty about what happened behind the scenes. Through a narrator who meets figures thought to be central to the event, this Shincho Newcomer Award-winning story traces an unsettling process in which hearsay and memory reshape reality.

Everyone spoke with certainty about what lay behind the incident, and some even let slip that they had been involved.