Yui sits in a fortune teller's room while her boyfriend can't be bothered to remember her birthday, and the movie doesn't yell about how unfair that is. It lets the quiet damage speak for itself. The real magic isn't in predicting the future, it's in watching two women decide whether they're brave enough to change it. A small, patient film about the moment you stop waiting for someone to choose you.
Yui's relationship has grown cold, and her boyfriend cannot even be bothered to wish her a happy birthday. Her friend Aya points her toward a fortune teller who is supposedly the genuine article, raising the question of what fate has in store for them. A short romantic comedy, it was produced while its creator was in self-quarantine. Minori Matsuoka made it as a 2021 graduate project in the animation department of the Tokyo University of the Arts graduate school of film and new media.
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