Plot Summary
In a small town of southern Japan during the 1980s, Sakutaro "Saku" Matsumoto and Aki Hirose, classmates since junior high, become high school students. They fall in love with each other, which has them sharing their audio diaries and enjoying day trips and summer vacations together.
Aki soon discovers she has leukemia, which limits her chances to go outside or see Saku. Once Saku learns the truth, he buys flight tickets to take Aki to Australia's Uluru (Ayers Rock), which Aki refers as "the Center of the World"; a place she had always wanted to visit, but she dies before she could board the plane.
Seventeen years later Saku -- now older and sombre -- trudges through his everyday existence until an audio tape is accidentally unearthed. He learns it is Aki's last audio diary, prompting him to travel home to their childhood hometown. As he wanders around the town while listening to Aki's audio diary, he recalls their last days together.
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