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A tormented ninja. A hidden conspiracy. A dangerous mission. An immortal work. It is 1689 and the poet Matsuo Bashō undertakes a pilgrimage to the province of Sendai in order to finish writing what will be his most celebrated work 'Paths of Oku'.

Two neighbours whose paths cross thanks to a domestic incident begin a strange game: recycling time. They decide to tell each other about their own and other people’s memories, scouring the past to rescue the little stories forgotten in its folds. The rules of the game allow for invention, dreams and journeys.

The ignorance-based society is the other side of the coin of the “knowledge-based society” and raises vitally important questions that demand answers: what dangers lurk behind the promises of the “knowledge-based society”? What costs or “collateral damage” go with it? Is the outcome knowledge and nothing but knowledge? What limits are involved and need to be taken into account?

This story begins at a lake flooded by the sea, continues across a country in the grip of the war and spreads across a maze of trenches on the banks of a river that acts as the frontier with a bad dream. It's the story of a mystery; of the Scottish soldier Elgin Gairloch, recruited to fight in France, and how he returned home following the last battle of the Somme in the spring of 1918.