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The small Yen note that Maille had found after a great deal of searching in a fish container in the Tsukiji Market had unclear Japanese signs scribbled on it. Under the signs was scribbled in English: «search for a cellar in the sea». The receptionist at his hotel looked at the note and explained to him that the Japanese scribble on it denoted a place named Shirahama, which was the farthest point on the peninsula of Boso south of Tokyo – located about 200 kilometres away from the capital.

With the bus and train, Maille got from Tokyo to Shirahama in about four hours. But once there, he had simply no desire to go looking for a «cellar in the sea».What he wanted was team-mates or opponents – figures that could breathe life into his story, who could sit down in the sandbox of his mission and lift the plastic shovel for or against him.

He found an old man and a small girl, who appeared quite eager to take part in his mission. Maille called out and invited them in, but the duo could not find the entrance to the story and had to therefore remain outside.

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Kap Shirahama