The film delicately portrays a young girl who struggles with the sudden discovery of juvenile breast cancer and her complicated relationship with her mother.
Kinjou, who has become disgusted with his job and the world itself, takes a hallucinogenic red capsule that allows him to meet the person he likes for a few minutes and escapes by seeing his wife, that died, every day.
This story is a dark fantasy told through reconstructed flashbacks memory bugs(errors) seen at the moment of Tsuruha's death. Her brother Kikuo returned to 1930s Japan after finishing his studies in France to become a translator. He soon receives a letter from Tsuruha, who was thought to be dead....
Japan, 1920. Okiku is a maid who works in a mansion, which is inhabited by a puppet theater writer and his wife, who lives in seclusion. When the maid tries to contact the woman, she brings to light a terrifying secret.