Life seems to be going incredibly well for them until Daisuke is killed in an accident. At the one-year memorial, his estranged older brother turns up from Gunma prefecture, clear across on the other side of Japan. Rie shows him Daisuke's photo and he immediately says: "Who is that? That's not Daisuke at all. That's a completely different man."
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