Marie-Lou Fontaine, director of a French nursing home, faces mounting resistance from staff and shareholders after introducing a new method of care built around dignity rather than convenience. Her life shifts when she meets Mari Morisaki, a Japanese theatre director fighting cancer, and the two women form a deep, transformative bond that crosses language and culture. Marking Ryusuke Hamaguchi's tender, audaciously patient study of humanity through one life-changing encounter, the film is a revelatory work from the director of Evil Does Not Exist. An audaciously tender, transcendent study of humanity that works like a healing balm, Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto's luminous, bilingual performances grounding a genuinely revelatory film.