Sand Clock

Following her parents’ divorce Ann and her mother move to her maternal grandmother’s house in Shimane Prefecture. Adding to the stress is how they are not integrating well at their new home. Ann’s mother commits suicide. The consolation for Ann is school-mate Daigo who is loving and helpful, but that is soon to be taken away due to the new distance between them. They grow older and drift apart, but there is still love there when they do reunite. —aghaemi