The soldier endures countless hardships, struggling with an unwavering will to survive on the open water.

But when he finally drifts back to his hometown and sees his family again, he realizes the truth — he has already died.

Row, once a patient with delusional disorder, has finally recovered. But the side effects of being cured have only just begun.

At the clinic, the doctor, his family, and friends congratulate him. A diagnosis form of “Recovered from Delusional Disorder” is handed to him. Row returns to his normal life, but a quiet emptiness follows him everywhere.

During another ordinary day, he keeps thinking about the cause of his illness — his imaginary girlfriend. After work, he goes to their usual café, drinks coffee alone, and watches children swinging in the park. But she never appears again.

That night, when he returns home, he suddenly begins to cry. This is the true side effect of being cured.

Row is a lonely, eccentric man living alone in an old building. Every day, he lowers a basket from his window with notes asking for help. Passersby sometimes respond, sometimes ignore him. People start to wonder: Who lives up there?

Day after day, the same lonely rope hangs from the fourth floor — carrying strange messages, small requests, and bits of payment. Over time, the rope grows longer, digging into the ground. At its end, Row meets a tree, a mole, and finally the Earth’s core — and in the end, he becomes a tree himself.

A boy named Row loves one of his mother’s paintings more than anything. He dreams of living inside it one day.

Carrying the painting, he leaves home and begins to wander — searching for places in the real world that resemble the scenery within the frame, hoping to find the entrance to the painted world.

Along the way, he jumps into ponds, crosses bridges holding lotus leaves, and finally reaches the edge of the painting. There, the painted world becomes real, and his parents turn into figures inside a painting. In the end, he steps into another canvas — returning to reality.

Row is an astronomer. After graduation, when humanity stops exploring space, he loses his job.

To continue observing celestial data, he moves to a small town and takes on a strange task — writing obituaries for dying stars.

Meanwhile, news of an approaching meteor shower and the end of the world throws the entire town into unrest.

Row is still an unborn baby. His mother dreams, and fragments of that dream drift into his unformed mind.

News arrives: his father has died in the war. Then comes the long journey, the relocation, and the pain buried far away.

During the three months before his birth, with only a faint consciousness, Row experiences a secret part of his mother’s life — her grief, silence, and unspoken despair — things he would never know after he is born.

Without a complete brain, he can only feel through weak sensations, sharing her emotions and pain in fragments. That was the world before his birth.