Synopsis

In Osaka's Airin District, thousands of men work each day, many finding nightly refuge in rooms too small to accommodate even basic storage. Consequently, they depend heavily on inexpensive rental lockers to hold their necessities and cherished effects. Each locker becomes a microcosm of existence, a condensed chronicle of a life. During the Obon season, when much of Japan journeys to ancestral homes and graves, we established ourselves at a locker rental shop, inviting patrons to share fragment