Shell and Joint

Nitobe and Sakamoto are childhood friends who now work at the front desk of a capsule hotel Nitobe has a particular fondness for philosophy and crustaceans Sakamoto meanwhile is fixated on suicide The capsule hotel draws a variety of guests including a Finnish mother who has lost her child a fugitive woman and a researcher studying Daphnia None of their lives ever intersect They exist but never cross like cells in a capsule hotel The themes of life and death are explored through a fragmentary view of the characters lives