After a software glitch causes an advanced AI program to fall in love with a young woman, it escapes into the body of a man and tries to win her heart.
"I want to disappear" is written in the dirt of the park. A correspondence between a boy who longs to be a villain and a girl who waits for her mother in the park at night.
The story depicts a Japanese American family that "resettled" in Chicago a few years after being forcibly interned by the U.S. government, as they run a dry cleaning business and navigate their lives.
