Every-Night Dreams

Every-Night Dreams

193365 min7.2 / 10

A quiet, intimate portrait of a single mother and son navigating economic hardship and emotional upheaval when an absent father resurfaces in Depression-era Tokyo.

In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and walked out on her years earlier.

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