SWIM

Kintaro is a young swimmer with a visual impairment who has built his life around the pool. After losing an important race, he is left questioning the reason he ever started swimming in the first place, and the discipline that once felt instinctive becomes a source of doubt. As he drifts through training and quiet self-examination, an exchange with his rival cuts through the haze: a few pointed words begin to dislodge the answer that has been buried inside him, pushing him to confront what swimming really means to him beyond winning and losing.