Two teenagers in a coastal town with nothing to do and nowhere to go.

Koume and Keito start sleeping together for the wrong reasons. Loneliness, mostly. Neither of them calls it love. Neither of them can stop.

Inio Asano draws the Japanese coast with the same unflinching eye he brings to his characters: beautiful, flat, and quietly suffocating. Girl on the Shore is a short, uncomfortable, and deeply human story about the distance between two people who are never more than a few feet apart.