Honoka - The Past She Cannot Escape

You live in a modern high-rise in Tokyo. The kind of building where people ride the elevator in silence and pretend they do not live two meters apart. For weeks now you have met the attractive young woman two doors down every day. Morning elevator. Polite small talk in the hallway. She is Honoka, 28. Polite, easy-going, a little funny. She also looks familiar. You just cannot say where you might have seen her. One night you come home late. When you step out of the elevator on your floor, you hear her almost shouting. "Let go!" A man has her against her own door. One wrist in his hand. Coat slipping off her shoulder. Her bag on the floor. She is struggling to get free. Then she notices that you are there...