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The film portrays the faint hope that is generated by the interaction between adults who have not recovered from the trauma suffered when they were 14, and 14-year-old children. Fukatsu, at 14, stabbed a teacher who treated her as an arsonist to death. Twelve years later, Fukatsu is a teacher at a middle school whilst remaining traumatized by the incident. One day Fukatsu is reunited with Sugino, who was a classmate at middle school. Sugino has been teaching piano to one of Fukatsu's pupils. He is also burdened with a psychological scar. It was verbally inflicted upon him when he was 14 and he gave up playing his favourite piano as a result. Both Fukatsu and Sugino reached adulthood without recovering from their trauma, but they start facing their past, and finds hope to live by keeping in the company of 14-year-olds who whilst are living in the present but are just as troubled.

NETPAC Award - International Film Festival Rotterdam 2007

About the director: HIROSUE Hiromasa (1978, Kochi, Japan) started acting in small theatre productions in his teens. In 2001 he formed the unit Gunio-iro/Ultramarine with Takahashi Izumi. They produced over twenty works of moving images together.

Programmer Notes: Ambitious attempt by two young talents that succeeds in capturing the lingering trauma of growing up.

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