My husband fell ill and was hospitalized, and my sister-in-law Chisato, who works as a stylist abroad, came back to Japan after eight years to visit him. We had been close since childhood, and she was the first one to teach me how to put on makeup. Thanks to Chisato coming over, my loneliness and anxiety eased, but there was another side of her that I didn't know. On a night when the cicadas were noisy, as I lay sweating in my mosquito net, Chisato slowly approached me…
