Dodo Arata

After Hiyori is admitted to the hospital, Uta goes around recording sounds from the memories, wishing for her to regain consciousness. She believes that they can return to that day. As she traces their memories, she makes a discovery.

This documentary is set in a small mountain village in Nagasaki Prefecture. 13 households, 54 residents remained and they all help each other to live. More than fifty years ago, plans surfaced for constructing a dam, which residents have steadfastly opposed. Villagers who want to protect a hometown blessed with abundant nature and clean water have been pitted against a mighty power. Rather than focus on the opposition movement, this film turns its sights on the lives of people now bound together like family in their coexistence with nature.

Centres on Jeanne, a journalist tracking a mysterious rare herb that appears only once every 997 years.

目が不自由な人のために映像を言葉で伝える、映画の音声ガイドの新たな仕事を始めた尾崎美佐子。けれども、ある時、彼女は、中森雅哉という弱視のカメラマンから、音声の付け方が不親切でなってないという、忌憚のない批判を浴びせられることに。中森は一流のカメラマンだったが、今やその視力を失いつつあった。はじめは彼の率直で無愛想な態度に反発を覚える美佐子だったが、次第に彼の写真作品や人柄に心惹かれるようになる。