In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
In Tokyo, the reckless single mother Keiko moves to a small apartment with her twelve years old son Akira Fukushima and hidden in the luggage, his siblings Kyoko, Shigeru and Yuki. The children have different fathers and do not have schooling, but they have a happy life with their mother. When Keiko finds a new boyfriend, she leaves the children alone, giving some money to Akira and assigning him to take care of his siblings. When the money finishes, Akira manages to find means to survive with the youngsters without power supply, gas or water at home, and with the landlord asking for the rental.
A man casually refers to having sex with their mother , and mentions putting on condoms each time they had sex.
violence
There is no gore. Yuki's dead body is shown briefly to be put inside a suitcase and buried.
alcohol
Their mother is seen smoking in one scene.
The children's mother comes home slightly tipsy one night, you hear one of them say that she "smells of booze".
frightening
The idea of little children living helpless without a mother might unsettle some viewers, and the hardships they go throguht might be emotionally unsettling.
Yuki falls from a chair and dies. By the time this happens, the film already grows rather emotional.
