A Distant Cry from Spring
"A man, a woman, and her son – three lives thrown together on a stormy night."
The quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the arrival of a man who ignites flames of romance in the heart of the mother and shows her boy the importance of grit and kindness, but then he leaves with the autumn wind.
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