An Invisible Sign

[Machine Translation] A complete film adaptation of the U.S. bestseller by Amy Bender, starring popular actress Jessica Alba! A magical romantic drama about a slightly mysterious girl with a clumsy love life and a tendency to daydream, who finds her own happiness, with the sensitive direction that only a female director can deliver! --Mona is an ordinary, cheerful, athletic girl who is no different from other children, except that she loves mathematics. However, on her 10th birthday, her father, whom she loves very much, suddenly suffers from a mental illness. Mona believes that by "giving up" the things she loves, her father will recover, so she gives up everything she loves: athletics, piano, dessert, movies, salads with eggs, and even her relationship with her best friend. What she did not stop, however, was her favorite math and her habit of knocking on trees. Whenever she feels anxious or stressed, she counts endlessly while rhythmically knocking on the tree. This was Mona's way of imprinting the sign of "giving up" on the tree and talking to it about what she was doing and how she felt. One day, Mona, a 22-year-old college dropout who doesn't quite fit in with her peers, is suddenly kicked out of her home by her mother, who tells her, "I'm taking care of your father, so you should go on with your life. One day, her mother abruptly throws her out of the house, saying, "I'm taking care of your father, so you should go on with your life. As she comes into contact with the mischievous students and the handsome and eccentric science teacher, her heart, which had been closed because she was used to "giving up," opens up little by little...

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エイミー・ベンダーによる全米ベストセラーを人気女優ジェシカ・アルバで完全映画化! 恋に不器用で空想癖のある少し不思議な女の子が、自分の幸せを見つけ出す姿を、女性監督ならではの繊細な演出で描く魔法のような恋愛ドラマ! ――モナは数学が大好きということ以外は、他の子となんら変わらない、明るく、運動も好きな普通の女の子。しかし彼女の10歳の誕生日を境に、大好きな父親が突然、こころの病にかかってしまう。好きなものを"諦める"ことで父が回復すると信じるモナは、陸上競技、ピアノ、デザート、映画、卵入りサラダ、更に親友との関係など、好きだったもの全てを断ってしまう。但し、止めなかったことは、大好きな算数と木をノックする癖。不安やストレスを感じると、リズミカルに木をノックしながら、無限に数を数える。それは、モナが"諦めること"の徴(しるし)を木に刻印し、自分のやっていることや気持ちを木に語りかける行いだった。同世代にまったく馴染めず、大学も中退した22歳のモナは、ある日突然、母親から「お父さんは私が看ているから、あなたは自分の人生を歩みなさい」と家を追い出されてしまう。更に彼女は、ひょんなことから母校の小学校で算数を教え始める。やんちゃな生徒達や、風変わりでハンサムな理科の先生と触れ合う内に、"諦めること"に慣れて閉じてしまった彼女の心が、少しずつ少しずつ開いてゆくのだった・・・。

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