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讲述在纽约的华盛顿高地，杂货店老板Usnavi在继承了祖母的财产后，将要关掉店铺回到家乡多米尼加共和国过退休生活，对此他百感交集，而拉美裔社区和那里居民的吸引力让他停下来思考。影片围绕Usnavi、一名大学生、一名出租车司机、一位美容院员工和一个渴望更好生活的老妇人展开，随着中产阶级化开始扎根，闷热夏天中，一场停电让个人危机达到前所未有的高度。

这部精美的动画短片由编剧/导演威尔·麦柯马克和迈克尔·戈维尔联手打造。在悲剧发生后，一对父母失去了孩子，伤心欲绝的他们要面对随之而来的失落感。

有人说人类世界与动物世界差别在于人类拥有爱情。故事从二个彼此不相识的人偶遇开始，石头与安安彼此不相识，在一次巧合里石头救了失恋的安安，从此激发出爱情火花，彼此的生活再也离不开对方，弥漫着甜蜜的滋味，在一次的口角过后，彼此开始重新思考一些问题……

Aki and Naoko are childhood friends who are drifting apart as adults. Immersed in her family life, Naoko now has a husband and daughter; Aki, on the other hand, remains single and is on leave from work due to a personal crisis. The plot might sound familiar but it has never been told like this. The director Kusano Natsuka stages the interactions through an actors’ table-read and, as the lines are repeated, the scenes gradually develop into on-location conversations. Moreover, she repositions the dramatic peak of the story to the beginning: Aki has murdered Naoko’s daughter.Structurally inventive, Kusano's daring cinema implements ‘distantiation’ effects to get to the heart of friendship issues at times when life has settled. While the repetitions convey the suffocation of role patterns in both friendship and family, a line left out or added in unsettles and reminds us life can take unexpected turns.