When Yui Nishikawa returns to Yokohama from her days abroad as a student and translator in Dublin, she finds herself feeling out of place in the city where she was born. She must try to reassemble those parts of her that feel disconnected by reuniting with discordant memories and overcoming the vicious anonymity of the unending city and the thousand strangers always looking away at something else.
Over a number of years, she finds reflections of herself in the lonely nooks of Tokyo and Yokohama, the strange idiosyncrasies of its residents and guests, the transformations and unknowable parts of her friends, and in the stray painter Charlie who, like her, is searching for something to quiet the ache of feeling lost.
A moody and introspective look into loneliness, distance, and intimacy Here and There is a dreamlike depiction of the ghostly textures covering the surface of the world and those we love.