A man tells a story about his brother's vanishing, and by the time you realize what he's actually describing, the line between what happened and what he needed to believe has already dissolved. The film moves like a dream that knows it's a dream, using a peep show and a telescope as the same instrument, collapsing distance and intimacy until you can't tell them apart. Nobody talks about this one. That needs to stop.

In the early Showa era, a mysterious old man on a train recounts how his older brother disappeared thirty years earlier. The disappearance took place near Ryounkaku, the twelve-story tower that once stood in the seaside town of Uozu. His account turns on telescopes and peep shows, and on the hazy line between waking life and dreams. This psychological mystery film is adapted from a short story collection by Edogawa Rampo. It was screened at a traveling art exhibition devoted to lenses, shown at prefectural art museums in Aomori, Shimane and Shizuoka during 2018 and early 2019.