While Hollywood still has a long way to go in supporting queer stories and storytellers, we're living in a relative golden age of LGBTQ cinema compared to what has come before. Netflix has not always chosen to support the LGBTQ community in their business decisions, but the streamer has played a major role in increasing the visibility of queer characters and storylines in both film and TV, and in supporting queer creators in telling stories. As.
The two protagonists, Rei (Kiko Mizuhara) and Nanae (Honami Sato) seem to have no intersection point in their adult life at the beginning of the film. We know right from the start that Rei is a well-to-do plastic surgeon in a stable relationship with another woman. Her family, though loving and supportive, is in the dark of her being a lesbian, given that the identity is presumably very much stigmatized in the context of the story.
The misdirection of the state of their relationship dominates throughout the development of the storyline
On the other hand, Nanae, being an old acquaintance of Rei, is a long-suffering victim of domestic violence. The misdirection of the state of their relationship dominates throughout the development of the storyline. The story then attempts to explore their defiance against the society and possibly patriarchy through their careful probing of each other’s feelings.