再见 / 宫城由良[HIGR-046]

　　Can I Get a Witness? tells the story of a mother and daughter in a near-future world where huge sacrifices are made to maintain life on Earth.　　With its resources swallowed by e-waste and overpopulation, the world is experiencing an anthropogenic collapse. To manage, technological advances are shunned. Nobody has electricity and only people with exceptions are permitted cars. Most importantly, there is also a collective agreement that nobody is allowed to live beyond the age of 50.　　Oh’s Ellie lives with her teenage daughter Kiah (Keira Jang), who is starting her first day as a Documenter, an important role in this new world order. She uses her artistic gifts — beautifully conjured in animations — to draw the dying ceremonies, since printing and photography have been banned.　　Kiah is paired with Daniel (Joel Oulette), the young man who performs the contractual elements of each person’s end-of-life ceremony. He matter-of-factly provides the packages a person can choose, sets them up when the time comes, and performs the burials. But his new coworker is having a hard time handling the emotional impacts of the job.

“废柴”大龄男人顾大池继承了父亲的“遗产”：一家破二手书店。他决定用一个夏天把书店变现，由此认识了复读女孩蔡小心，他们整理书卖书，把面包车改成“移动书房”上路，直到发现了父亲藏在书里的“宝藏”……很快，夏天就这么过去了。

　　带着过往伤痛，塞吉欧只身一人前往「微笑之村」担任代理教师。这座对负能量零容忍的小镇，明明曾遭逢巨变，居民们却笑口常开。原来，让这座微笑之村风光明媚的秘方，是一位能吸取人间苦痛的男孩，他的身体如祭坛，透过拥抱承担全村的悲伤。他为人搭建快乐天堂，自己却陷入无尽黑暗。塞吉欧与男孩的相遇，搅乱了镇上的平衡；那座炼狱之门，也终将反向人间敞开。