A woman stuck in her day-to-day trot one day discovers a pitch-black oily creature in her closet whose many tentacles first give her a fright, then great pleasure. Similar critters start to appear all over the big city, offering a new perspective on this thing called life. Director Kenichi Ugana expands his eponymous short film into a complete edition, staging a tentacle fantasy as a melancholy metropolitan ballad with socio-utopian potential—with tinges of Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo trilogy. Are monsters the last hope for mankind?