Shikioriori

A bowl of noodles takes a young man living far from home back to memories of his grandmother and the meals of his childhood. Elsewhere, a fashion model's anxiety over her career strains the bond with her younger sister, who has dreams of her own.

For Li Mo, old cassette tapes reopen the memory of a childhood friend and feelings he failed to communicate. Across these lives, food, clothes and recorded voices preserve connections that adulthood has made difficult to hold onto. Looking back becomes a way to decide which parts of the past can still belong in the present.