A twelve-year-old named Ayumi wanders through rural Japan in the late ’80s, driven by a half-formed memory of someone he hopes to find again. The quiet towns and long backroads he crosses feel familiar yet slightly off, like places caught between childhood imagination and reality.
The deeper he moves toward the forest outside town, the stranger the atmosphere becomes. Locals offer help, warnings, or cryptic half-truths, each shaping the route in small ways. With a typhoon closing in, his search turns into a slow, tense unraveling of the stories the community avoids and the secrets the woods hold onto.