America

In the late 1980s, Nae dreams of becoming a journalist and leaving Japan for the United States, a country she sees as a place where anything is possible. While she waits for the chance to pursue that goal, she shares her enthusiasm for American culture with her friends. As they consider a destination that feels close in imagination but far away in reality, the group’s path leads between hope and disappointment. The story explores the American Dream as young Japanese people see it, and the ways their own traditions can seem to stand between them and what they want.