Le Portrait de Petite Cossette

Eiri Kurahashi, a Japanese art student working at an antique shop, starts acting strangely-becoming distant and unlike himself. His friends grow worried and suspect a girl might be the cause. They aren’t entirely wrong. Eiri has become obsessed with a doll-like girl he sees trapped inside an antique Venetian glass, a piece his uncle brought back from France. She appears to exist in another world within the glass, and her image haunts his thoughts. His sketchbook fills with drawings of her, and his fascination deepens. When he spots her in a portrait by the enigmatic Italian artist Marchello Orlando, he discovers her name: Cossette d’Auvergne, a girl whose family met a tragic end. One evening, as he’s closing the shop, he hears her voice pleading with him not to go. For the first time, they truly connect-and Eiri agrees to something he doesn’t fully grasp.