Filmmaker Statement

I discovered the existence of the Missing Post Office from France, through an article I stumbled upon. A few weeks later, I set off alone to film it, venturing to a tiny island in the Seto Sea. There, I found a place invisible on most maps, open for only three hours a week. And in the warm light of its entrance, an elderly man sitting in silence. This film was born from that encounter. It is neither an investigation nor a report. It is a presence — his, the letters, the voices — and the silence that sometimes speaks louder than words. With this project, I wanted to pay tribute to intimacy, to memories that resist erasure, and to the beauty of what is shared only once.