When her grandmother dies, the extremely young Mikage lives completely alone in a house that''s too large where she finds
refuge in the
kitchen, the only room where she feels safe ("The best place to sleep is next to the refrigerator", she confesses). But one day "a
miracle occurs". Yuichi "a sympathetic boy", knocks on the Mikage''s door and suggest that she comes to live at his house with his mother, Eriko. Yet this beauftiful and friendly woman is not a woman, she is a man who became a woman when the Yuichi''s real mother died. The fable, which develops between computers, household appliances, and food also develops among feeling of love, friendship, and complicity, is in fact a terrible story where solitude and emotional dryness are, like a "miracle",
mitigated by the immense wisdom of another ancestral world, still
latent, and luckily still perceivable.