Synopsis

On the Boso Peninsula, near the Kamogawa, a twenty-four-hour convenience store opened three years ago within a sprawling general hospital, a place where emergency patients arrive from the depths of night into the early hours. Stocked with everything a hospital might need, from medical supplies to sugar-free fare, the store is perpetually busy. A young man, confined to a life after a car accident, frequents the aisles. A restless patient seeks the morning paper before dawn. Doctors on the night s