Ayumi is a young man with special powers (passed down in his family) to bring back the dead to meet the living. According to strict rules, meetings must take place under a full moon. After years in this role, he begins to question its meaning. Ayumi is searching for the best way to balance the responsibility of his special powers with his own desires as a young man in the real world. Meanwhile, he helps out five characters:

• A young film star finds resolution with the father who abandoned him, but not as he expected;

• An amateur historian fan is obsessed to meet a minor warlord of the sixteenth century;

• Ayumi manages two meetings on the same evening, both have lost their daughters;

• A former cook, whose request to visit an upper-class young woman in the afterlife has been repeatedly rejected, is finally granted his wish, & to share a life-changing view of cherry blossom.

Find out how Ayumi & his clients learn to lose their regrets, open up to the unexpected, & cherish what they already have in this profound & moving novel by Japan's leading storyteller.