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Mio is 20 years old. Having lost her parents early, she and her grandmother run a traditional inn in Nagano. However, her grandmother gets sick. Mio moves to Tokyo and lives with her father’s best friend, Kyosuke. He runs a public bath. She begins to work at the public bath, but it is scheduled to be demolished to make way for redevelopment.

Honoka Matsumoto carries the film with a quiet, luminous vulnerability as she navigates the loss of her family roots. This gentle portrait of urban displacement captures the melancholy beauty found in fading communal spaces.

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