Aki and Naoko are childhood friends who are drifting apart as adults. Immersed in her family life, Naoko now has a husband and daughter; Aki, on the other hand, remains single and is on leave from work due to a personal crisis. The plot might sound familiar but it has never been told like this. The director Kusano Natsuka stages the interactions through an actors’ table-read and, as the lines are repeated, the scenes gradually develop into on-location conversations. Moreover, she repositions the dramatic peak of the story to the beginning: Aki has murdered Naoko’s daughter.Structurally inventive, Kusano's daring cinema implements ‘distantiation’ effects to get to the heart of friendship issues at times when life has settled. While the repetitions convey the suffocation of role patterns in both friendship and family, a line left out or added in unsettles and reminds us life can take unexpected turns.
小有名气的15岁平面模特满月夏芽(小松菜奈 饰)不得不跟随父母回到老家,帮助年迈的爷爷打理旅店。美丽的女孩很快结识了新朋友,同时也认识了那个周身闪着白色光芒的长谷川航一朗(菅田将晖 饰)。阿航是当地神主一族的孩子,但是他无拘无束,经常干一些出格的事。他时不时戏耍夏芽,而夏芽则对这个坏男孩颇有好感。在阿航的鼓励下,女孩重拾信心,继续自己的艺能事业。在某个祭典之夜,一桩意外降临在少男少女的头上。失落的夏芽和阿航分手,阿航则堕落成街头混混。在此期间,两人的同学大友胜利(重冈大毅 饰)鼓舞着夏芽,两人越走越近……本片根据ジョージ朝倉发表在《别册Friend》(讲谈社)上的同名漫画改编。