Two people the world rejected find each other at midnight on a construction site. That meeting stretches across twenty-five years, and every frame asks whether love between outcasts can survive when everything around them says it shouldn't. The film never cuts away from their faces when the hard questions come, it just watches them choose each other anyway, over and over, knowing the cost.
At midnight on a construction site, a man whose head is a cone meets a pink-haired woman, and their meeting is a forceful one. Ryuya Suzuki's short drama film follows these two outcasts over twenty-five years, a provocative love story that weighs right against wrong from shifting ethical angles. Together they run and leave the world behind. In 2022 the film won the top Japanese award at the ninth edition of the New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival.