CAILLEAH SCOTT-GRIMES | CANADA | 2020 | 17 MIN | V.O. JAPONAISE & A. S.-T.A. / JAPANESE & ENGLISH S.-T.EN.
Kei longs for a “normal” life in rural Japan. But for a transgender man who is jobless in his own hometown, getting to normal is one steep climb, especially since Erin, his Canadian partner, longs to move to Tokyo, where they can live openly and freely. By chance, turning up at a hot spring Kei once loved as a child, the couple – one on the men’s side, the other, on the women’s – must face the truth about their divergent wishes, identities, and murky notions of belonging.
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