Tales of upheaval and confusion, longing and love in the aftermath of the Kobe
earthquake. For the characters in after the quake, the Kobe earthquake is an
echo from a past they buried long ago. Satsuki has spent thirty years hating one
man: did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? Miyake left his family in
Kobe to make midnight bonfires on a beach hundreds of miles away.
Fourteen-year-old Sala has nightmares that the Earthquake Man is trying to stuff
her inside a little box. Katagiri returns home to find a giant frog in his
apartment on a mission to save Tokyo from a massive burrowing worm. 'When he
gets angry, he causes earthquakes,' says Frog. 'And right now he is very, very
angry.