[DeepL Translation - needs review] Volume 1 Introduction: Umiko is 65 years old, bereft of her husband, and visiting a movie theater for the first time in decades. There, a life-changing and shocking event awaits her. When Umiko meets an art student named Kai, who is majoring in visual arts, she realizes that she is a person who wants to make movies. She realizes that she is a person on the "side that wants to make movies. ...... Invited by the waves that stir her heart, at age 65, she dives...
After a fateful meeting with art college student Kai at a movie theater, 65-year-old Umiko decides she wants to go back to college and learn how to make movies. The plot largely revolves around Umiko's back-to-school life, her unlikely friendship with Kai and why people want to create in the first place.
There's some film and movie specific vocab, but most of the other vocab isn't difficult due to the school and home setting. Kai speaks in an abrupt manner that can take a bit of getting used