At the base of Mount Fuji, Aokigahara's dense trees and volcanic rock have earned it a grim reputation as one of the world's most frequented suicide sites, with authorities reporting dozens of deaths there most years. The film follows a patrol, including volunteers and police, as they walk marked trails searching for the missing, finding abandoned tents, discarded shoes, and handwritten notes tied to branches. Signs posted along the paths urge visitors to call a hotline or think of their families before going further into the woods. Interviews with searchers, local officials, and people who work near the forest describe why Japan has struggled to address the site's reputation without simply erasing the history that created it, including a 1960s novel that first drew national attention to the forest as a place to die. The documentary stays close to the physical details of the search rather than statistics alone, letting the discarded objects and empty campsites carry the weight of what happens there.