A Summer Family

The Japanese dancer Kamimura has lived for years with two women in the south of Normandy. Early in the summer, during a dance festival, his wife Akiko and his young daughter Mayu arrive from Tokyo. Yozuku, one of the other women, leaves for New York. Kamimura spends the summer with his family, and as autumn approaches and Yozuku returns, mother and daughter prepare to return to Japan.
The women get along without any trouble. Only it’s strange that the daughter Mayu can be heard all the time, but never appears on screen. And does it just seem so, or is Akiko’s behaviour sometimes very inappropriate? In a mix of dance, theatre and film, director Iwana, who himself also lives in Normandy, creates a fairytale life in a commune where everything works out the way the protagonists would like to see it. Or is there something else going on? The film’s website warns about ‘5 minutes of “pornographic” material’.