Konoha can't write anymore, so he watches Touko eat books instead, literally consume stories to fill the void where her own life should be. That image is the entire movie: two broken people trying to exist in the space between what they created and what was taken from them. The narrative moves like someone thinking in circles, which frustrates you until you realize that's the point, trauma doesn't follow plot structure, it just repeats until someone finally says it out loud.
Konoha Inoue lives a quiet life as an ordinary second-year high school student, keeping a carefully guarded secret: under a female pen name he once wrote a bestselling, award-winning romance novel, and he has sworn off writing entirely after a traumatic incident two years prior. That fragile peace shifts when Touko Amano, the third-year president of the school's literary club, pulls him into joining. Touko calls herself the Literary Girl and is really a spirit who eats stories, tearing out pages to snack on. Konoha ends up writing a fresh story for her every day after school. Their calm routine is disturbed when Miu Asakura, the girl at the root of his trauma, appears before him. Adapted from the fifth light novel volume, the film draws on Kenji Miyazawa's Night on the Galactic Railroad as a motif and mixes drama, mystery, psychological tension and romance.
