Island of Light

While documenting a controversial tragedy that shook her community, a filmmaker must put her morals to the test when a perverse secret in her own life is revealed.

Keisuke, 15-year-old junior-high school boy, has been forced to live as refugees with his family in temporary housing apart from a hometown as a result of the Great East Japan Earthquake.In 2012, he belongs to a broadcasting club of his junior-high, to which he has to be admitted for the earthquake. He spends time with some fellows of a club. But all equipment to make their works of it has been washed away by the tsunami. He decides to give up his filmmaking in this summer, which will be the last time of his junior-high days to make a work.But one day a man who lives in a small village in Heilongjiang, China donates the equipment for filmmaking to Keisuke's school. Also Keisuke, his fellows and his teacher have been invited by him to shoot a film in China. And they are travelling to shoot around the boundless Chinese land.

Nana, the director of the Nanase Detective Agency, is a detective skilled at professional pachinko. One day, a man named Fukushima, who is visually impaired, asks her to investigate his wife, Tomoko. She hardly ever stays at home, became addicted to pachinko, and even engaged in prostitution to make money. Around this time there is also a serial murder case involving regular pachinko players. Detective Omachi, who is investigating the case, asks Nana to cooperate.

After losing her parents, Kanako moves in with her grandmother in a town by the sea.