Yoichiro Saito

Fujino, a fourth-grader, serializes a four-panel manga strip in the school newspaper receiving rave reviews from her classmates. But one day, her teacher tells her that Kyomoto, a truant student, wants to publish her own manga in the newspaper. The two girls' shared passion for manga brings them together until one day, an event shatters everything. A heart-wrenching coming-of-age story unfolds.

A neuron scientist and her husband discover a black-and-white 16mm film in the basement of a dilapidated hospital. The film documents underground experiments on a part of the human brain called the sylvian fissure in an attempt to gain insight into the “forbidden territory” – an invisible reality achieved through neither life nor death. Obsessed with this surreal concept, the surgeon tries to reconstruct what she saw by recreating the experiment...starting with her own daughters!