To Tokyo
2015, 96 minutes
A young woman, hiding from her past, is confronted by her stepsister in Japan and forced to face the Figure that haunts her in a world where dreams meet reality.
We find Al in a remote Japanese village, shadowed by a Figure never quite seen. He is the movement out the corner of your eye; he is what makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end. Al has travelled far, running from her broken family and its twisted past. She dwells in the anonymous safety of hotel rooms, haunted by recurring dreams of an eerie forest. The solitude of her hotel room is disrupted when Al’s stepsister arrives and tells her that Al’s mother is sick, and it is time for her to come home. Their flight leaves from Tokyo in a few days; but Al refuses to go home, she cannot face the past that still terrorises her present. Al yearns for solitude until she wakes at dawn in the forest she has been dreaming about and being alone becomes very real and very dangerous. Al embarks on an epic journey across a vast land, devoid of human life, stalked by the Figure, who is emboldened in this terrain. Al must journey through intoxicating, inhospitable, ever-changing landscapes. She must face the darkness of the Figure and all he represents if she wants to make it back to civilization, back To Tokyo. The tale climaxes amidst the skyscrapers of Tokyo, on the top floor of a hotel, in a room with a man who could hold the key to what she is looking for.
