Taeko is 27 years old, unmarried, and has spent her entire life in Tokyo. She chooses to travel to the countryside to see her family, and as the train passes through the night, memories of her earlier years flood back: the first juvenile stirrings of passion, the onset of puberty, and the frustrations of math and guys. At the station, she is met by young farmer Toshio, and her interactions with him begin to reconnect her to long-forgotten longings. Taeko ponders the arc of her life in poetic changes between the present and the past, and wonders if she has lived up to the dreams of her childhood self.
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Taeko is 27 years old, unmarried, and has spent her entire life in Tokyo. She chooses to travel to the countryside to see her family, and as the train passes through the night, memories of her earlier years flood back: the first juvenile stirrings of passion, the onset of puberty, and the frustrations of math and guys. At the station, she is met by young farmer Toshio, and her interactions with him begin to reconnect her to long-forgotten longings. Taeko ponders the arc of her life in poetic changes between the present and the past, and wonders if she has lived up to the dreams of her childhood self.
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