The camera rarely moves and yet there are images here as strikingly lovely as any you've seen and others as sweetly alive.

It is a sombre and painful drama, enacted with reserve.

Each character moves and speaks differently, shining with the complex inner life of a real person with real needs, real memories, real thoughts.

It's a very Japanese understanding of suicide: as not bluntly tragic or a waste, but alluring, mysterious, not subject to total comprehension ... the state of grief itself.