Alice to Therese no Maboroshi Koujou

After a mysterious explosion at the local steel mill, the town of Mifuse becomes trapped in a single moment. Nobody can leave, nobody grows older, and the authorities impose strict rules against change in the hope that the world will eventually return to normal. For middle school student Masamune Kikuiri, the frozen years have become an empty routine he has learned to endure.

Then his enigmatic classmate Mutsumi Sagami leads him into the mill’s fifth furnace, where a feral girl who cannot speak is being hidden away. Their encounter disturbs the fragile balance that has kept Mifuse suspended, and emotions everyone has been forced to suppress begin breaking through. In a world terrified of change, love itself becomes a force powerful enough to tear apart the reality holding them captive.