Still the Water

Kaito (Nijiro Murakami) is a teenager on the island of Amami who has never really known his father, who left for Tokyo soon after he was born. His girlfriend Kyoko (Junko Abe) is facing her mother's terminal illness, and Naomi Kawase filmed the two of them among the island's forests and shoreline. Both are young and without parents to steer them, and the film is about how they begin to find a place in the world.