Silence is a dropout from the philosophy department, working as the night caretaker of the Dust Museum in a city where acid rain is always falling. His job is simple: guard thirty-seven thousand bottles of dust and wait for dawn.
But he has a secret - he can see the "dust of meaning" falling on everyone. When a person loses the reason for living, the dust on his body will turn black.
Seventeen-year-old girl Su Xiaoyu opened the museum door on a rainy night. She was soaked all over, her feet were bare, and dense black dust was falling on her body. She said she had three months to live before she would disappear completely - becoming a transparent "hollow" that no one could see.
And Shen Mo saw a transparent figure standing behind her, putting his hand on her shoulder.
The director's letter led them to meet, and the undertaker of the funeral home, Dr. Chen, reached out to help. In the glass cabinet on the third floor, a row of empty bottles updated the date of the day every day. What are those bottles waiting for? Why do some people go empty? How does one prove that one has survived?
When you can see evidence of other people's existence, who will prove your existence?
This is a story about living and disappearing. About those people who have quietly lost their reason for living, about the dust of time falling on everyone's shoulders, and about the two pairs of eyes that see each other in the dark.
And, the museum that collects 37,000 proofs of "existence"——
The dust disappears, but someone remembers what it looked like when it fell.
