In the past, public housing complexes were desirable addresses for people who called them “dream new towns”. It was a place where people lived in close quarters, had light-hearted conversations with neighbours and occasionally helped each other. These complexes exist today. However, the attitudes of its residents have greatly changed. Having lost interest in what kind of people live next door to them, their relationships with their surroundings are tenuous at best. 62-year-old Terauchi Seiji (Sano Shiro) and his young granddaughter Honoka (Watanabe Uta) move to Ayamecho Complex, a public housing complex which was built in the suburbs of Tokyo in the 1970s. This is the place where he spent a happy childhood. Terauchi does perfect housework and showers an inordinate amount of love on Honoka as he takes care of his elderly father (Yamaya Hatsuo). He looks like the perfect old man but slowly begins to show lunacy. |