In a quiet forest, a solitary old woman lives in a small cottage, and the local children whisper that she is an evil witch. Two siblings, determined to uncover the truth, decide to visit her, beginning a gentle and mysterious story about perception and loneliness. This is the opening of a collection of short manga stories that explore the intersection of the mundane and the magical. The anthology, a complete single volume, presents a series of unrelated narrative vignettes, each focusing on different characters in distinct settings. One story follows a boy who asks his teacher about the distant Vietnamese coastal city of Phan Thiet after learning his crush is moving there. Another features a waitress in a bar who never smiles, while other tales center on a homeless child, a storyteller with captivating tales, and a cast that includes anthropomorphic birds and a forlorn rabbit on a Buddhist altar. The narratives are unified by a shared atmosphere of melancholic mysticism, blending fantasy with slice-of-life drama, as seen in chapters like "Witch of the Flower Forest," "The Scaly Thrush in the Moonlight," "The Kingfisher on the Water's Surface," "Story Teller Story," and "The Cat and Pancakes."