Renoir

Tokyo, 1987. Fuki Okita is an androgynous 11-year-old whose father, Keiji, is battling cancer. Her mother, Utako, is constantly stressed out from caring for Keiji and working full time. Left psychologically detached, quirky and sensitive Fuki has a rich imagination. Over the summer, each of the Okitas soul-searches and thirsts for human connections. Fuki admires a pretty, affluent girl in her English class but her family isn’t as perfect as it seems. Fuki also becomes fascinated with a telephone dating service and ends up in a near-miss situation with a pedophile. Meanwhile, Keiji devours information on new medicines but as his condition worsens, he puts hope in increasingly desperate treatments. Utako engages in an affair with her anger management class leader, but his wife finds out and reveals a shocking truth. While Keiji eventually succumbs to his illness, mother and daughter develop a deeper bond. At the ocean, Fuki goes on a solo journey to discover a new vision of herself.