A boy who can only speak in haikus meets a girl hiding behind a mask, and somehow that constraint becomes the whole point. Neither of them can say what they mean in the normal way, so the movie does something radical: it lets the language itself become tender. By the time an old man's search for something lost ties their story together, you realize you've been watching two people fall in love through the only words they were brave enough to use.

Cherry is a quiet boy who wears headphones, struggles to talk to people and finds it easiest to express himself through haiku, which he posts online. Smile is a popular video streamer who keeps her face behind a mask because she is self-conscious about her braces and large front teeth. The two meet one summer at a suburban shopping mall in a provincial Japanese city. When Fujiyama, an elderly man whose memory is failing, tells them he wants to hear a particular old vinyl record once more, Cherry and Smile set out to track it down. All they have to go on is the record's sleeve and the word "yamazakura." The result is a gentle romance and slice-of-life film.