A voice behind the camera—male, calm, director-like—says: "Scene 4, Take 1. Yuki, tell us about the audition."

The director laughs off-camera. "That's good. More vulnerable. Keep going."

Yuki Hoshino vanished six months after this was filmed. Officially, she retired due to "health reasons." Unofficially, Mari finds a missing persons report filed by Yuki's mother—filed the same day as the video's metadata creation date: .

But today is 2024.