While visiting her grandmother’s house, Haruka meets a strange fox-like creature who leads her on a journey to another world whose inhabitants make a living by collecting the things that the humans from Haruka’s world neglect or forget. It isn’t long before she is confronted by the things she stopped caring for, like a childhood doll or a special hand mirror that her mother gave her right before she died. Discovering your past and taking responsibility for it are two different things, however, and Haruka must battle to prove she’s worth getting a second chance. It’s a message that may sound a bit heavy when you read it on paper, but director Shinsuke Sato delivers it in such a magical way you never feel lectured to. The computer–generated animation used to create the world Haruka goes though is thrilling to see, but the art never overpowers the acting or the characters. It’s a perfect fable for audiences of any age.
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