August. The city is empty. Alcestis is at the threshold; where reality doesn't fit in the dream. So an idea sticks in her mind. To live through the lives of the heroines of her stories. Every day she becomes a different woman. Even if she hurts from such identification, she knows it will last for a little while, because tomorrow she will be someone else. But this escape from reality eventually becomes fatal, when the heroine she chooses to identify with is similar to her.