Thirty-eight million people live in and around Tokyo, yet many of them are so lonely that in some cases it is life-threatening. Loneliness is so prevalent that Japan has appointed a Minister of Loneliness and experts speak of an (a)social pandemic throughout the modern world. In Dear Tomorrow we meet two lonely people. Unbeknownst to them, they are already connected to each other through the chat line “A Place for You”: a lifeline where every day young volunteers try to help thousands of people in crisis, but helping everyone is difficult.
This is a film you feel deeply, especially when the light finally breaks through and they gently find the human contact they have been missing. With its sensitive and luminous images, Dear Tomorrow is a quiet, attentive and poignant film about the universal need for contact and presence.