An unadorned perspective on impoverished life in Okinawa, an island in southern Japan whose trendy historical past was tainted by the bloody battle for the Pacific. 17-year-old Aoi works as a nightclub hostess with a view to earn lease cash and to offer for her little boy. She additionally helps her lazy husband Masaya, who has no qualms about giving her a couple of slaps, significantly after he loses his job. What probability does this younger household need to scrape their approach out of the social mire, the place they had been pushed by poverty and the imprudence of youth? How darkish does actuality need to get earlier than it stifles the rays of hope that filter by? An intimate story that presents a much less glitzy image of Japan than is customary, demonstrating that social inequality impacts all corners of the globe.
