My trivial thinking

Aki visits Zao to show the starlit sky to her handicapped son, and by chance she runs into her ex‑husband on the gondola. His worn, haggard appearance shocks her. Upset and confused, she exchanges only a few brief words with him. Two months later, Aki manages to find his address and writes him a letter. This becomes the beginning of their renewed correspondence. Aki was the only daughter of a father who owned a large construction company. She and Yasuaki had been classmates in college, and after graduation they married. Yasuaki was expected to become her father’s successor. But a year later, he became involved in a double‑suicide attempt at an inn in Kyoto. The woman, Yukako—his classmate from junior high school—died, and he survived. After the incident, he was deemed unfit to inherit the company, and the couple divorced with hardly a word between them. Aki remarried, but her second marriage brought little happiness. Her son was born with physical and intellectual disabilities, and he...