An old ryokan survives a flood and the owner rebuilds it with their own hands. The film watches this happen with the kind of patience most animation won't give you anymore, finding the weight in repair instead of spectacle. You're not watching a story about resilience; you're sitting inside the act of it, one wooden beam at a time.
An old Japanese inn stands on the banks of the Kuma River. The 2020 floods leave it badly damaged, and its owner sets about weaving the building back together until it regains its former glory. The film is a short animated graduate work made in 2025 at the Department of Animation within the Graduate School of Film and New Media at Tokyo University of the Arts.