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Ball & Chain

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Keito, a company employee in their late twenties, is planning to get married as a "woman," yet has never felt fully anchored to a specific gender or sexuality. Aya, a married woman in her fifties, continues to perform the role of "wife" even though her marriage has long since gone cold. Both struggle with the gender they were assigned at birth and the "wife" role that has become nothing more than a pantomime.

They share a deep doubt about the "normalized" box they have been pushed into, and they try to reclaim their true selves. This is a story of two queer people fighting against the restrictions of "woman" and "wife," of "normal" and "common sense." It is a story for those who struggle against what confines them.

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