恋について 吉田実紀

改编自Frank Shyong撰写的《洛杉矶时报》报道《一个垂死母亲的计划》(A Dying Mother’s Plan)。来自真实事件，被形容为“让人心碎的故事，聚焦理解心理疾病的多层面的重要性，尤其是亚裔社群中”，讲述在圣盖博谷，一个患上癌症绝症的母亲奋力想要帮助自己情绪不稳定的儿子——她发现儿子对大规模枪击案越发沉迷。

　　水树沙罗（岛崎遥香 饰）是一个在演艺圈打拼多年的青年女演员，虽然她努力磨练演技，勤奋专注，却始终未得到世人的关注。在此期间她受到来自事务所的压力，二者相权之际最终选择参加剧作家锦野豪太（小市慢太郎 饰）的新作《鲜血的召唤》的试镜。《鲜血的召唤》根据史上真实人物嗜血如命的伊丽莎白的故事改编，为了美这个女人不惜残害鲜活的生命。沙罗与同事务所小有名气的女星筱原葵（高田里穗 饰）一同试镜，两人最终分别获得了农家女孩安娜以及主角伊丽莎白的角色。　　在排演过程中，放置在舞台中央的人偶似乎有了自己的意识，让本就为了荣光而近乎癫狂的女子们更走向了崩溃的边缘……

　　The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.

　　A hit and run of an 18 year old girl becomes the hub of a wheel that sets into motion many a spoke - a journalist , a raging mother, a cop and a system all caught in an ethical dilemma. Questions raised only to realise that truth is rarely pure and never simple.