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One rainy day, London-based artist and musician Jesse Kanda observes his father Kasuhisa make a big block of homemade I tofu. Son helps strain seawater, Father slices the curd with deliberation. Newly fermented, a smaller block of tofu is mixed with shoyu, ginger, green onion, and nori. Dirt on feet and body, on a hammock, lying on a bed inside a fanned room: two people from two generations and cultural upbringings, and their two different aftercares.
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A single mother living in inner city Chicago, Brenda has been struggling for years to make ends meet and keep her three kids off the street. When she's laid off with no warning, she starts losing hope for the first time - until a letter arrives announcing the death of a father she's never met. Desperate for any kind of help, Brenda takes her family to Georgia for the funeral, but nothing could have prepared her for the Browns, her father's fun-loving, crass Southern clan. In a small-town world full of long afternoons and country fairs, Brenda struggles to get to know the family she never knew existed... and finds a brand new romance that just might change her life.

Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse...