A tender and perceptive film about a young girl trying to hold her own in a world full of silent adults. With a subtle gaze and great emotional precision, Hayakawa captures how grief, imagination and growing up merge imperceptibly.

Tokyo, 1987. With a terminally ill father and an overwrought mother, 11-year-old Fuki is mostly left to her own devices. She often finds herself alone at home with her rich imagination. When she becomes fascinated by telepathy, she disappears deeper and deeper into her own fantasy world.

Japanese director Hayakawa based the film on her own childhood, when her father was dying. The form is reminiscent of the impressionist style of French painter Renoir. Her film also features a reproduction of one of his paintings, Irène Cahen d'Anvers. This is no coincidence: she received the reproduction from her father at the time, and it gave this exceptionally poetic film its title.