A middle-aged salaryman living with his wife and daughter wakes up at an intersection in Kyoto the morning after a company drinking party, with no memory of how he got there. Upon returning home, his daughter says something completely unexpected, sending him on a quest to uncover what really happened the night before. Winner of the 3rd Sogen Mystery Short Story Award.

The morning after the party, I woke up at a Kyoto intersection. That was only the beginning of something extraordinary.

A film photograph of the protagonist's late father is discovered on the occasion of a memorial service seven years after his death. Yet the date imprinted on the photo is the day after he died. Bewildered by the existence of a photograph that should not exist, his daughter Anri seeks advice from a young photography shop owner. A finely crafted mystery short story that probes the very nature of photography as a medium of record.

"A photograph is a trace. It bears witness to the fact that a person was once there."