Kaede Miyamura

The disappearance of a classmate leads Oscar to look more closely at the world around him

Surrounded by gibberish in a foreign schoolyard, Hina, a new immigrant, attempts to charm her way into friendships using an omamori (Japanese amulet) and broken English phrases. After one disastrous introduction, she retreats to her confidant Holly, a self-righteous sheep residing at a local petting farm, who teaches Hina English through wild imagination. But a human-sheep relationship can only last so long and when Holly cuts her ties, Hina must now fill the Holly-shaped void with a real human friend.

Irina's childhood comes to a premature end after her non-English mother is fired from her job as a motel cleaner, upending their parent-child relationship.