Synopsis

On a national highway's edge, in Saitama's suburbs, lies an indoor fishing pond where men cast their lines well into the night. Twenty species of fish—carp and Hakurei among them—swim within the twenty-meter pool. Saomote rods are available for rent, yet success in catching the fish proves elusive; they are seasoned to the act. The visitors are a varied cast: businessmen seeking new opportunities, young people charting their futures, and enigmatic figures in sunglasses who materialize with the d