Maihime

Far from Japan in nineteenth-century Berlin, the young student Toyotaro finds companionship in Elise, a dancer whose life is marked by hardship. Their growing love offers refuge from his loneliness and opens a future that differs from the respectable career expected of him.

When the chance to return home and recover that career arises, personal devotion collides with ambition and duty. Toyotaro’s uncertainty places Elise’s hopes in jeopardy, turning a relationship born in a foreign city into a painful test of responsibility.