A girl's voice narrating her own small desperation, nothing exploding, nothing resolved. Dazai doesn't give you a story to follow, he gives you the exact texture of wanting to live beautifully while knowing you can't, watched through May 1st and nothing else. This is adaptation as translation: taking prose that cuts like glass and making you feel the cut in real time, not explaining it.

While a narrator reads aloud from Osamu Dazai's novel "Schoolgirl", one day of a young girl's life in Tokyo during the Showa era plays out on screen. Dazai's story, first published in 1939, is told in the first person and was based on a girl's diary. It is set on the first of May and gives voice to a self-conscious adolescent who longs to live a beautiful life. Objects from that period appear throughout this short psychological film.