Mi caballo

Yuko Setoguchi works as an office clerk at a shipyard, virtually invisible to those around her. Her life unfolds in a drab, monotonous routine until, one day on her way to work, she happens to cross paths with a retired racehorse that has escaped from its transport truck—an encounter she interprets as a twist of fate. The connection is as instant as it is unexpected. The horse’s name is Strada. When she rides him at a stable on the outskirts of the city, she feels an immediate bond between her heart and the animal’s—a connection she has never experienced with another living being. From that moment on, she becomes obsessed with him. She believes they are sharing a wordless love in a world awash with words. To help him regain his lost glory, Yuko begins embezzling money from her company and forging documents; before she knows it, the sum—initially intended as a mere loan—has ballooned to over one hundred million yen.