Heat, sultry summer, the Japanese countryside. Asa tries to adapt to life outside the city: the distance from civilization, the constant presence of her husband's strange relatives, and the eternal chirping of cicadas. The premise seems unremarkable. But Oyamada's stories are devoid of banality. On the contrary, imagine a mixture of Lewis Carroll's prose, David Lynch's films, and Miyazaki's anime. Now forget it—you're in for something completely different. A symbolic existential parable. J-horror. A ghost story. A manifesto reimagining the traditional role of women in Japanese culture.