by Ira W. Marnie

We open on a school yard. It is raining, heavily. Despite this, everyone in the school yard is talking happily. Parents are reunited with their children after a long day of separation. Inside the building, watching with a very mature expression, is young Yoshimi, whose mother has abandoned her. She feels alone, drenched in water, and tragic. We then cut to her as an adult, dealing with a dramatic divorce from her husband and a custody battle for her young daughter, Ikuko. Mother and daughter end up in a cheap apartment building, suffering the battlefield and scrutiny pressed upon them by her husband. While there, a ghost story begins to form. An abandoned child’s spirit, drowned in the water reservoir on the apartment’s roof begins to creep into their already distressed lives.