Hakota Yuko

Misaki Yamada, 30 and single, has no clear ambitions. After drifting between jobs and places, she works as a care worker until trouble in love and work upends her life. Shiba, 38, avoids close relationships, but takes in his nephew and slowly bonds with him through Yamada. Shimizu, 46, faces caring for her father after years of putting work first. All three search for where they belong.

Trapped in her anemic career and love relationship, a 30-year-old TV commercial director returns to her countryside home in the company of a free-spirited friend. In a bittersweet reunion with an alienated family, her childhood memories of freedom and yearnings creep in the dreamlike blue hour, transcending into a lyricism of self-realization – at once whimsical, agonizing and yet hopeful.

Adapted from the novel short story collection "Yuming Tribute Stories" inspired by the songs of Matsutoya Yumi.