Through a being in the shape of a girl who continues to drift without being able to become a snow crystal, I expressed the feeling of being unable to take the same form as those around you because of slight differences in conditions. Humans appear only as large hands, never showing their faces or bodies. The warmth of the hand she first touches causes her to lose her crystal form, and in the final scene she drifts back onto that same hand. The same human warmth is both what transforms her and, in the end, what receives her. I placed this kind of touch, which cannot be reduced to a single simple meaning, at the center of the work. I also sought to depict blue not merely as a symbol of sadness, but as a color containing the coldness of rain, light, the sensation of wetness, and transparency. I wanted the ending not to be closed off as either salvation or despair, but to leave room for it to be read as either loneliness or comfort.