Vincitore della Queer Palm e del Prix du scénario a Cannes, l’intricato film di Hirokazu Kore-eda indaga la fragilità della giovinezza maschile. Tra incendi e tempeste, sentimenti delicati di rabbia, confusione e amore culminano in una squisita colonna sonora finale del maestro Ryuichi Sakamoto.

A mysterious stranger approaches a group of young friends at a sleepy small town playground, then kidnaps and brutally murders one of the girls. Wracked with grief, the victim’s unhinged mother Asako demands that the shaken survivors identify the killer or face a penance of her choosing.