A stingy man who counts every penny in his pocket could never have imagined that the cherry pit he swallowed—just to avoid wasting it—would cause him so much trouble. This animation, brought to life by Koji Yamamura, centers on a bizarre physical transformation interwoven with absurd humor. The tree that stubbornly sprouts right on top of his head first turns into a noisy park frequented by crowds, and then into a meaningless puddle. The man’s stubborn bond with this ecosystem rising atop his own head quietly whispers of the modern world’s suffocating constraints and the individual’s drowning in his own solitude. This fantastical nightmare, woven with subtle irony in every second, points to the strangest place a simple mistake can drag a person into.