Kako Annika Esashi

Three high school girls spending their final summer in the drama club. A woman who longs for the sounds of the town and tries to stop time. A fisherman living while facing an inevitable generational change. A man who has moved to the town and grows vegetables while waiting for spring. The sounds of everyday life they create are gentle and quiet, yet the sounds that flow there exist only in that town, and they are also sounds that stir everyone’s memories.

Mikio, the former manager of a shuttered movie theater, begins tracing his origins when its building is slated for demolition and redevelopment. His high school best friend, Nobuhiro, struggles to face his father’s advancing dementia. Old things fade away, and new things are born. Every day unfolds as a fleeting moment in a city undergoing constant change.

Kazu, an actor visiting his hometown, where he will have to confess a sad secret to his family. Saikai is a seaside municipality in Nagasaki prefecture — a place with charm, nice scenery, and not much going on. For Kazu, it’s a nice contrast with Tokyo, where he has gone to make his living. His family and his old community welcome his return visit, and he is loath to disappoint them, but the truth about his upcoming marriage will have to be told…

A Japanese-American girl arrives to her grandmother's hometown in hopes to reconnect with her heritage, but is confronted by the city's questionable dinosaur-themed redevelopment plan.