不在他处 正是此地

Forty-three-year-old housewife Maho has long devoted herself to managing every aspect of her household, but this home has long since lost its former warmth. Her husband was laid off by his company, yet he leaves and returns every day as if still going to work; her daughter Hina has not come home for five nights, offering no explanation to her parents about her whereabouts; her son Shuichi often goes out and does not return, coming and going without a trace. When night falls, Maho finds no rest—she puts on clothes her children have discarded and heads to her part-time job at a convenience store, her thoughts still lingering on her children. Exhausted, weary, anxious, and despondent, she desperately needs a break, yet there is never a place to rest or a moment to catch her breath. Despite striving so hard to manage her own life and that of her family, it all ends up feeling futile. It is as though she is living a sorrowful life from which her own family has already laid her off…