Japanese mythology presents the firefly as the echo of those who have passed – souls reverberating as faint flickers in the summer night. Hotaru’s fireflies light up its verdant darkness with halos and sparks, both joyous and melancholy, and sometimes so faint that we cannot separate them from dreams. The night is vast, yet for brief moments, the ghosts of distant memories emerge from the shadows and illuminate the wandering mind with each radiant pulse.