After the movie ended and the ending credits started rolling, Maru kept watching the screen without saying a word. The story was very ordinary. It was an overdone ‘communication between the dead and the living’ plot. The acting of the actors were decent and the series of clichés made it so that the movie wasn’t worth praising, but it was not a waste of time either. Simply put, it was just a ‘decent’ movie. It was a family comedy movie that aired every Christmas - everyone could have a laugh watching it. It was one of those movies that everyone would forget about after the movie finished and just grab something to eat afterwards.

“Should we stay a little more?”

She spoke. Maru nodded faintly.

Despite the common plot, the reason Maru couldn’t escape the swamp of emotions should be because the situation didn’t feel unfamiliar to him. He was well aware that a movie was just a movie and that fiction had nothing to do with reality, but his heart didn’t act the way he wanted it to. His mind stayed silent, yet his heart was crying all by itself.

He focused on the movie and didn’t even realize he was crying. The figure of the husband that passed away overlapped with his own figure at the last moments of his life, which made him gnash his teeth. After that, he felt a tragic sadness when he saw that the spirit of the...