比利時外交官的女兒Amélie在日本長大,形容自己兩歲半前只是一條「消化管」—— 食物一進一出。唯獨與日本管家建立起的情誼,令她突然意識到語言、家庭與萬物的存在,內心隨四季起了變化。但在踏入三歲的那天起,Amélie築起的天地逐漸被離別和失去沖散。 Until the age of two and a half years old, Amélie describes herself as a digestive tube, inert and vegetative. Then comes the crucial event that makes her leap into childhood. She discovers language, parents, brothers and sisters, a heavenly garden, passions (Japan and water), aversions (to carp), seasons and time. Everything that, from the age of three, constitutes the human person forever. Because at that age, everything is played out, happiness as well as tragedy.