Approaching her birthday, she decides to stay in her room and memorize every single moment.
Most of the scenes show Keiko in her apartment, though later she goes out and walks through the city into a snowy field.
[1][2][3] One commentator says that the movie is highly visual and poetic, and that it contemplates on the nature of time and loneliness.
[4][5][6] After screening at the 29th Torino Film Festival, it was described by Italian critic Luca Calderini as "an example of poetry in images".
[1] The reviewer Carson Lund calls the movie a "tightly wound and endlessly suggestive cinematic artifact".