Yumiko abandons her life as a geisha in Tokyo, returning to her provincial hometown. She embraces her freedom, but winds up collapsed on a riverbank. There, she is found by Koji, a bartender. They begin a simple life together, but one day Yumiko is seized by a wild impulse...
Fårö island, floating in the Baltic Sea, a place much loved by Ingmar Bergman. One night, in a small house on the island, a solemn, dancing demon clothed in black appears in front of a dying girl, and leads her to the riverbank on the border between the living and the dead, where dead children go to build stone towers forever, in limbo.
Young urban creatives are drawn to Japan's rural town of Kamiyama, known for its pristine nature, fast internet, and welcoming locals, but not everyone is wrapped up in this rural renaissance. This documentary records six years in the lonely life of the local hairdresser, the elderly Satchan.
