儿时被母亲抛弃的葛西泉不得不放下心结,照顾着患有阿尔茨海默症的妈妈。妈妈逐渐失忆,却经常奇怪地要求泉和妻子带自己去看“半朵烟花”。随着妈妈的一次又一次走失,泉被抛弃压抑已久的情绪失控,母子矛盾彻底爆发。在妈妈生命最后的这段日子,泉最终发现了妈妈尘封许久的秘密……
影片改编自川村元气同名原著小说,荣获第70届圣塞巴斯蒂安国际电影节最佳导演奖。。在故事的世界里,彼此命中注定爱人的名字印刻在对方身上,以命运的对象的名字刻在身上的"NAME VERSE"世界为素材的魔幻罗曼史。。Killian is a young man who has never left the remote mountains of Huesca (Spain) which saw him grow up. In 1953, he travels back to the exotic Equatorial African island of Fernando Poo, in Spanish Guinee, where he was born, to work in a cacao plantation alongside his father and his brother. During 20 years in this island, until the troubled days of independence, he will undertake a journey towards maturity and knowledge, but will also have to deal with pain and loss.。