A journey around the sea of Nagasaki, the home of the photographer Motonari Tagawa: 81 landscapes and portraits on medium-format film, seen from the sea towards the island where he grew up, Matsushima off the Nishisonogi Peninsula, in waters with some 600 islands, just over 70 of them inhabited, and the Goto Islands in the distance. People who live from the sea and the faiths rooted in the land, Catholicism, hidden Christians, Buddhism and Shinto, the sea road along which peoples, cultures and religions have arrived since ancient times, put together in the manner of an American road trip. Having left his island at fifteen, Tagawa looks back at the sea in front of him, and the photographs wake memories that drift in it and are carved on the land: the dead, the will of ancestors, the memory of a place. An afterword on the sea of Nagasaki and his own life and a separate booklet of shooting notes with interviews and essays add about 19,000 characters of text.