When the young Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a teacher is responsible, she storms into the school demanding explanations. But as the story unfolds through the eyes of mother, teacher and child, the truth gradually emerges.
Winner of the Best Screenplay award and the Queer Palm at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, Kore-eda’s new film, after Shoplifters and Nobody Knows, is made with a great moral intelligence and humanity.