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Visual ode to contemplative journey through the stages of life and the essence of human existence, set in a timeless backdrop of an Italian village.
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Status
Released
Original Language
IT
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.