増加し続ける孤独死・無縁死。その数は年間およそ3万件と言われ、人間関係が希薄になっていく現代を生きる私たちにとってそれらは、現実と向き合う切実な問題でもある。しかし、果たして人の生涯は人生の“最期”だけで決まるのだろうか。誰にでも平等に訪れる「死」。その日まで、人はどう生きるべきなのか。「死」を追いながら「生」を、「過去」をたどりながら「明日」への希望を見出す感動作だ。 11年前に母を亡くし、空虚感を抱えて生きている主人公、孝志は特殊清掃業（＝孤独死、事故死等が原因と思われる室内清掃業）で見習いとして働き出す。淡々と死と向き合う日常のなかで、ある日孤独死した女性の遺品から日記を見つける。そこに記されていたのは、女性の若かりし頃の秘められた思いだった。日記を読み進めるにつれ、孝志は少女が背負っていた驚くべき秘密を知ることになる…。
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The ever-increasing number of lonely deaths and unrelated deaths. The number is said to be about 30,000 a year, and for us living in a modern age where human relationships are diminishing, they are also an urgent problem facing reality. However, is a person's life determined only by the "end" of life? "Death" that everyone visits equally. How should a person live until that day? It is an emotional movement to find hope for "tomorrow" while chasing "death" and tracing "life" and "past". Takashi, the main character who lost his mother 11 years ago and lives with a feeling of emptiness, starts working as an apprentice in a special cleaning business (= indoor cleaning business that is thought to be caused by lonely death, accidental death, etc.). In his daily life facing death, one day he finds his diary in the relics of a woman who died lonely. What was written there was the secret thought of a woman when she was young. As he reads through his diary, Takashi discovers the amazing secret that the girl was carrying ...
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