太宰治の原点には、青森独特の異界観がある。幼い頃から祖母の怪談話に触れ、向こう側の世界に惹かれていった。彼の怪談の中でも異色の短編に、塚本晋也監督が迫る。

The story of a young man who has felt since childhood utterly alien from others around him. Since that time he has learned to put on a face to hide his alienation. He feels incapable of belonging to the human society, especially so by society's refusal to take him seriously. He then follows a descent into alcohol, drugs, & suicide ...