Based on a novel by Yasushi Sato, Mipo O’s award-winning drama reaches for a light in the dark with the bleak tale of broken young people stuck in dead end lives. Since experiencing a traumatic incident at work, Tatsuo has been passing his days in aimless stupor. He befriends by chance an impulsive young ex-convict and his long-suffering older sister Chinatsu, who sells herself to support her decrepit family. In each other, Tatsuo and Chinatsu find a glimmer of hope and solace, and perhaps the courage to start anew, but it’s not so easy to break out of the impoverishing cycle of abuse and apathy.