The narrator of barrier-free movies feels rewarded in her job. While monitoring movies for pre-release with some blind people, she meets a prickly photographer, Nakamori, who is losing his sight gradually. She has good and bad feelings for him at the same time. Nakamori who used to be famous lives alone after a divorce, but he still carries his camera to take pictures of people. With the repetition of chance and necessity, fate dictates Misako and Nakamori become intimate. To Nakamori in despair, Misako asks to take a trip to places in his pictures. Whenever Kawase makes a movie, the Cannes Film Festival seems to invite her, and with this movie, she was in official competition at Cannes for the fifth time in seven invitations. In comparison to her earlier movies, like Suzaku and The Mourning Forest, there has been a critical eye, but the emotions of loss, sadness, and gloom the director commonly possesses arouse our sympathy fully. (KIM Young-woo)