In a century-old B&B in a snowstorm in Hokkaido, the cherry blossom trees are wrapped in ice crystals and sleep forever. The hot spring steam condenses into frost feathers on the floor-to-ceiling windows. Whenever the Shinkansen whizzes by, the glass trembles and cuts the silhouette into overlapping fragments of light. This is the moment when the depressed printmaker Asano first meets the blind female tea sommelier Chiyuki and the aphasic ranger Aoi. In the silence of minus 15 degrees Celsius, the three souls begin a rout towards spring.
Purpose: Healing, redemption and vitality