A little girl sits down by her dying grandmother’s bedside to receive an important warning about how she should live her life with the knowledge that death will come to her, too.

Sent on a mission from the emperor, an expert wine-taster travels the countryside, seemingly oblivious to the war and death around him.

When a corpse is found in the forest on a rainy day, two police officers quietly curse at the dark curiosity human passerbys have toward death.