The truth of loneliness is too hard to bare

An elderly man’s body is discovered on a beach in an eastern port city of Hokkaido. The detective in charge of the case finds a book of poems at the victim’s home, and discovers that the man had not a single relative to speak of. She slowly unravels the story of the man’s final days spent lost in agonizing loneliness yet clinging to his last threads of life.

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