Yukio Shimizu

Based on the real-life story of Yoshitomo Kimura, who suffered a spinal cord injury in 1987, resulting in paralysis from the chest down. His wife works as a clinical lab technician and struggles to encourage his will to live. After attending a motivational workshop featuring a wheelchair-bound man, Kimura resolves to rehabilitate himself. He eventually regains enough mobility to work from home, but still faces daily challenges—especially if he falls alone at home. That’s when they decide they should adopt a dog to assist him. They welcome a rambunctious Labrador puppy named Cynthia (シンシア), hoping she might become a trained service dog.

The camera sometimes runs with him, sometimes captures him from a bird's eye view, sometimes stirs him up, and sometimes gives him a live feel that is as intense as the protagonist's tension. The high degree of freedom of the camera eloquently captures the protagonist's inability, to be honest. The use of a hand-held camera to capture the scene of the mountain disaster is also effective and memorable.