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La madre de Tomo, una niña de once años, deja su hogar por un tiempo indefinido. Tomo, acostumbrada a los abandonos temporales de su madre, acude a casa de su tío Makio. Allí descubre que vive con Rinko, su actual novia, que es una mujer transexual. Rinko trabaja como enfermera cuidadora y, entre otros pacientes, cuida de la madre de Makio y abuela de Tomo, que sufre de demencia. La situación confunde a Tomo pero, pese a ello, los tres empiezan una vida doméstica juntos.
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Kuroshi Mayama, age 14, lives alone with his mother Namiko. Though he was just under the age of one when he came to this town with his mom, he remembers everything from that day: Gettings on the bus in his mom's arms, an old woman who spoke some words to him, and the encounter with a poet... One night, with Kuroshi's birthday approaching, Father shows up unexpectedly. He insists that he and Kuroshi's mother had made an arrangement – that Kuroshi was to live with his mother until his 15th birthday and then live with his father. As Kuroshi's world gets turned upside down, his family, the people around him and even himself start to change.
