Žena šeta sama podnožjem planine Sengoku. Pojevljuje se čovek koji joj kaže da je čeka I poziva je u obližnje selo. Selo je prekriveno vulkanskim materijalom oblika vlati kose koji sija zlatnim sjajem. Noću, dok su stanovnici sela izvodili svoj ritual posmatranja neba bezbrojni neindetifikovani leteći objekti počinju da padaju na njih.
Đunđi Ito otkriva nove granice u Lavkraftovskoj priči kosmičkog horora.
I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.
Plagued by a maddening anxiety, the terrible disconnect between his own concept of happiness and the joy of the rest of the world, Yozo Oba plays the clown in his dissolute life, holding up a mask for those around him as he spirals ever downward, locked arm-in-arm with death.
Osamu Dazai's immortal and supposedly autobiographical work of Japanese literature, is perfectly adapted here into a manga by Junji Ito. The imagery wrenches open the text of the novel one line at a time to sublimate Yozo's mental landscape into something even more delicate and grotesque. This is the ultimate in art by Ito, proof that nothing can surpass the terror of the human psyche.
