this movie set it story in two oppose contrast one about urban life and country living and and another about young and old . yumi and live a shallow life like many teenage girl live in urban japan until her father send her to country side where their relative live for the summer . she befriend ms koide and an old lady who use to be an actress . remove from the urban life and and see the contrast between her who have whole life ahead of herself and and an elderly m koide who have nothing to look forward to in life and yumi begin to put thing into perspective about her own life . this realization come very gradually and so the movie seem slow and but the story be tell in a very beautiful way . almost all the people live around her in the city be very selfish and people live in the country aren not a privileged and but be more caring . yumi get a chance to reassess her life between the two oppose environment . kind of a come of age story for an urban girl and but also have message for all of u about what life be all about . highly recommended .