After the suicide of her twin brother, an adolescent girl runs away from home and the hyper-controlling tendencies of her cult-obsessed mother, only to embark on a dispirited life of self-destructive independence. Suicides, runaways, domestic emotional abuse, bizarre cults – this might sound like standard fare for Japanese thrillers, but in As She Blossoms in Twilight, these elements take on entirely new meanings. After a car accident in adulthood, the protagonist finds herself seventeen again. Everywhere she goes she is haunted by the voice of her deceased brother. Is this a sign that her opportunity at redemption has finally come? Or, is it a symptom of a mental breakdown? When humanity is distorted by superstition and misguided faith, even affection and warmth become sources of terror.