Into The Forest

When Edi Nakamura draws a girl she's never seen before but feels like she should know, it leads her to confront the other strange drawings she's created, the history of her sleepy town, and the abandoned railway carriage that holds the key to both love and destruction―once she opens its doors.

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Behind Langdale High, there is a forest, and in that forest are a set of railroad tracks with a railway carriage wrought with twisted vines and greenery devouring it slowly. Edi Nakamura draws this carriage whenever she puts pencil to paper―which isn't very often, after she knew the gravity of the power her drawings possess, what her art represents.

But in the throes of school on the verge of summer break, she is forced to draw for her art final, and the resulting work was as puzzling as it was concerning. Not a carriage, like she expected, but a girl. While her friends tease her about crushes and pretty girls, Edi stares at her drawing, rooted to her seat.

She's never seen this girl before, but deep down Edi knows she exists―and that she means more to her than words can express. She's willing to try any way to find out who she is. Even if it means facing the carriage in her drawings, the one behind her school; the one that radiates unsettling mystery, and figuring out what lies inside.

What she finds, however, is more than just a girl with her own darkness surrounding her, relating to the trees; she finds an unforgiving forest and an uncanny carriage rotting away slowly amid the surrounding nature; she finds a dangerous desire that culminates in a risk taken madly. She finds an unexpected prospect of love in the form of Bea Rinaldi, the girl of her drawings; but at a price―just like with all her art.

Now it's up to the two unlikely soulmates from different lives, different dimensions even, to stop the vengeful trees from inching closer and closer to the rest of Langdale and reverse the mayhem that had struck from opening that carriage door.