A girl with teleportation powers spends her time putting on puppet shows for kids who have nothing else. That's the entire moral architecture of this film. She could use her abilities for anything, fight anything, save the world in some grand way, instead she chooses a gymnasium full of forgotten children and a wooden stage. There's a quiet radicalism to that choice, a refusal to make her gift about anything except the people in front of her. 1988 anime understood something about heroism that most stories have forgotten: the biggest power is knowing how to make someone smile when the world has given them no reason to.

Mami Sakura is a schoolgirl who discovers she has superpowers. She can sense when people are in trouble and teleport to help them, a double life she hides from her parents with help from her schoolfriend, Kazuo Takahata. In this short fantasy film, Mami turns her abilities to a gentler purpose, using them to put on a puppet show for deprived children.