Yuumi Kawai

Fujino, a fourth-grader, serializes a four-panel manga strip in the school newspaper receiving rave reviews from her classmates. But one day, her teacher tells her that Kyomoto, a truant student, wants to publish her own manga in the newspaper. The two girls' shared passion for manga brings them together until one day, an event shatters everything. A heart-wrenching coming-of-age story unfolds.

In a near-dystopian future, Japan's government launches Plan 75, a program encouraging the elderly to terminate their own lives.

As an aging Yuriko loses her memory, her son Izumi confronts his own sense of disorientation while uncovering buried secrets from her past.