Steering forward

Hiro(27)is suffering from reduction in her work due to COVID-19. So, she decided to start selling her stuffs at an online auction. She found a foul-smelling water jug while looking for something for sale. The water jug is found to contain green paint, and she leaves her house to return it to the owner.

We follow a transformative time for 14-year-olds during a summer and winter in Obu city, Aichi Prefecture. Arham (Arham Butt) is a junior high school kid from the Brazilian community kicking around doing a whole lot of nothing. Classmates Chiemi (Chiemi Mukoyama), who comes from the same background, has a talent for art but is seeking to define what she wants in life while basketball player Suzuka (Suzuka Utsumi) is new in town and is seeking comradeship. The quartet is complete with Eiichiro (Ryoma Amioka), a loner.

Miki, a 15-year-old girl who just graduated from junior high school, came to a café for a part- time job interview. She found a scrapped car on that café’s site, and began shooting it with a camera borrowed by her brother. There was a board game “Othello” in the car. She unconsciously restarted moving the piece.