Nemuru Sakana

[Machine Translation] March 11, 2011. A tsunami warning was issued for Vanuatu in the South Pacific, far away from Japan, due to the earthquake. A short time later, Ayami Itobe, who lives on the island as a travel guide and interpreter, temporarily returned to Japan after receiving news of her father's death. As she goes about her daily life, she is troubled by the real picture of Japan, which seems to be in inverse proportion to the sense of crisis reported by the foreign media about radiation damage, and by the thoughts and actions of her family, who remain as conservative as ever, and she hears a rumor of a strange endemic disease called "Aoiroko. Ayami is unexpectedly upset when she learns that her father's will has left the family's land and house to a woman he had a relationship with after her mother's death. Ayami is unexpectedly upset. She thought she had left Japan to live a free life unbound by her country, but she finds herself looking for a place to return to. Then, a tumor in her mouth is diagnosed as malignant, and she is immediately hospitalized, and unexpectedly ends up staying in Japan.

2011年3月11日。日本から遠く離れた南太平洋のバヌアツにも、地震による津波警報が出されていた。旅行ガイドや通訳をしながらこの島に暮らす伊都部彩実は、そのしばらく後、実父の訃報を受けて一時帰国する。放射線被害について海外メディアが報じる危機感に反比例するかのような日本の実像、また、相変わらず保守的な家族たちの思考と言動に噛み合わない思いを抱きながら日々を送るうち、「アオイロコ」という奇妙な風土病の噂を耳にする。父の遺言で、母が亡くなった後に父が交際していた女性に、代々の土地家屋を明け渡すことになり、思いのほか動揺する彩実。国に縛られない自由な生き方を望んで海外に飛び出したはずなのに、戻る場所を求めている自分に気づく。そんな折、口中の腫瘍が悪性と診断され、即刻入院となり、期せずして日本に留まることになるのだった―。