Absence: World Without Me

A young girl meets another young girl through a phone app. The app is only supposed to connect people who know each other and yet they are strangers. They work together to solve the mystery.

A young man, tired of life, takes a walk along a river.

Tokio finds his wife Kumiko drowned in the bathtub one night. He lifts the telephone handset to call an ambulance but hesitates. Instead, he takes a cup of coffee before empting the bathtub and carrying Kumiko to the couch. When he wakes up after a nigh of heavy drinking, he finds himself in bed. Kumiko enters the room and asks how he is.

From Kyoto, a young woman comes to her uncle's house in Nagoya. The uncle cannot be found, however, a young man is living there.

A young man plays guitar in the park. A young woman soon arrives.

A woman returns to the apartment where she once lived. She expects it to be empty, but her ex is there.

Haruka and Manami are junior high school students. They go to the public library to do homework. Haruka is worried about her mother's surgery but she can't tell Manami about it. Haruka mistakes a strange girl for a ghost.

Three strangers get a strange feeling that something is "calling them." Minor things about their daily lives begin to have significance to them. However, this change causes each of them to distance themselves from those around them.

Three musicians get lost on the way to visit a friend's grave. They become irritated and start to quarrel.

Short film by Naoki Ichio.