Once you get past a certain point in life, the chance of finding new love must feel as remote as getting struck by lightning — or a meteorite, for that matter.
Single and newly sober, 49-year-old Fumi (Satomi Kobayashi), the protagonist of Hideyuki Hirayama’s “Tsuyukusa,” is driving home from an alcohol support group when her car is hit by a tiny space rock. It leaves her vehicle flipped on its side, and seems to throw her determinedly mundane life out of kilter, too.
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KEYWORDS
Tsuyukusa, Satomi Kobayashi
