Makoto Togashi

When a woman is found dead in an abandoned apartment in a hotel neighborhood in Maruyama-cho, Shibuya, Tokyo, police officer Kasuko focuses his investigation on two respectable women who are not what they seem.

Akira, the young new schoolteacher in town falls for secretive Miki, an older woman who takes care of her family's urn that supposedly holds a forest wolf-spirit, inugami. People soon start disappearing and the town blames Akira.

A Japanese family acquires an undead domestic servant whose presence begins to affect their daily lives.