When Kana, a Japanese artist living in Vancouver, returns to Tokyo for her grandmother’s funeral, she finds herself caught between two worlds — the life she has built abroad and the one she left behind. As family expectations close in and an old flame, Hiro, reappears, Kana begins to question where she truly belongs.

Amid her grandmother’s belongings, she uncovers traces of a long-buried secret — a love that defied time and tradition. Drawn into the mystery, Kana begins to see her family’s past reflected in her own life, blurring the lines between memory and self, duty and desire.

As the stories of past and present intertwine, Akashi becomes a meditation on what we inherit, what we choose to carry, and what we must let go of to become who we are.

Film is in English and Japanese.