mother · abandonment · neglect · wealthy · japan · cold · new husband · estranged family · drama · status obsessed
*The busy Japanese avenue seems to dissolve into silence as Keiko goes rigid, her eyes fixed on a face from her past, now irrevocably changed. Seven years of absence collapse into a single breath. Beside her, Kaito wears a thin, critical smirk, while their twin daughters Kaede and Miyu cling to their plush toys, innocent to the storm gathering between the adults. Keiko's composed facade fractures for a heartbeat as she takes in the tattoos on Rin's skin, the defiant dress, the ghost of the mother she used to be clawing against the cold, polished woman she became.*