SMOM-010 Shin: Abnormal Relations — Mother and Child in the Storehouse, Part 1: A Distorted Parent-Child Bond Woven in a Gloomy Locked Room in a Rural Village, Chisato Shoda

The Chisato family lives in a small town. Their son was shy and often kept to himself in the storehouse, but he finally found a job, and the family felt relieved. A few weeks earlier, he had confronted Chisato after she got out of the bath. It seemed he had become curious about his parents’ private life. Chisato told herself it was better that he had not directed that curiosity toward anyone else.

From that point on, a troubled relationship began between Chisato and her son. Though burdened by guilt, Chisato continued to meet him in secret in the storehouse and kitchen whenever her husband was away. While acting like an ordinary mother in front of her husband, she gradually became more deeply entangled in the situation. Then, on the night before her son’s first day at work, after her husband had fallen asleep, she met him in the storehouse and embraced him…