A woman given two weeks to live doesn't rage or bargain. She lies there paralyzed, watching her family move around her, and that silence becomes the entire movie. The film doesn't need melodrama or a score swelling at the right moments, it trusts that watching someone say goodbye without words is enough to break you. This is cinema built on the weight of ordinary, unbearable things.

Yasue is an elderly woman living in Kanazawa. Without warning she falls gravely ill, and her entire body becomes paralyzed. Her doctor then tells her she has only about two weeks left to live. This 1992 anime drama film is built around that sudden illness and the brief span of time her diagnosis leaves her.