When Kayu Saito wakes up, she is in an unfamiliar place. Taken to a snowy
mountainside, she was left there by her family and her village according to the
tradition of sacrificing the lives of the elderly for the benefit of the young.
Kayu was supposed to have passed quickly into the afterlife. Instead, she finds
herself in Dendera, a utopian community built over decades by old women who were
abandoned like her. Together, they must now face a new threat: a savage bear
who, like them, is female and hungry.