过着无精打采日子的平凡大学生的私,一边被在“捉迷藏社团”中遇到的冷酷且聪明的前辈所吸引,一边与瞬间掌握人心的神秘男子黑服实现命运般的相遇。无聊的日子一变,被卷入了名为“真夜中乙女战争”的东京破坏计画中……
有人說過「十七歲」是一個具有魔力的數字,因為十七歲正好是青春怒放的時期,離法定的成人還有最後一段的萌昧期。大多數人的十七歲都是在汗水與淚水交織的高中校園度過的,十七歲的生命充滿各種曖昧與可能。四十五歲則是另一個令人遐想的生命階段,因為在此標注了生命中點的里程碑,準備跨過的是「不惑」的關卡。四十五歲的他們抱著一顆曾經熱血的心展開了一趟追尋高中失聯同學的旅程,大家都以為旅程的終點就是與高中同學歡聚、慶祝同學會,沒想到,等待著他們的卻是一個個沒有逆料到的生命驚奇―― 包括中年失業、子女教養、夫妻關係、身心健康、父母健康、自我實踐與生死大事等問題,彷佛要通過了這重重的考驗,生命才能真的邁入不惑的旅程。於是,旅途上的他們與那些久違的年輕夢想、熾燃理念與純真初心相逢了,原來,他們一直在尋找的不是什麼失落的青春歲月或失聯的旅伴,而是那一個個被遺忘的「原來的自己」。旅程如斯奇妙,最後帶著他們一路返回了自己的「初心」。在這個期中休息站,他們盤整了自己生命的得失,加滿了油,再次啟程,往生命後半段的坦蕩旅途一路駛去,這次的終點將是圓融與完滿。
Mari (Marina Vlady) runs a boardinghouse for girls who are in trouble, and Juli (Lili Monori) is a young married woman who is fleeing her passionate marriage with an uncontrollable alcoholic. She has brought her young daughter along with her. Though this is not allowed under the house rules, Mari makes an exception for Juli. Both women are desperately unfulfilled - Mari has a narrow-minded and passionless man for a husband, and Juli still loves her husband, whom she recognizes as a person she cannot continue living with. The two turn to each other for comfort, and each woman gains necessary insights into her own life in seeing the other's struggles. This sober movie by feminist director Marta Meszaros was not a rousing box-office success.