Adapted from the children's literature of the British novelist Joan G. Robinson, it tells a touching story between the heroine Sasaki Anna and the girl Marnie, who is actually Anna's grandmother.
Xing Nai's parents died when she was young, her grandmother died of illness, and she was adopted by Aunt Lai Zi's family when she was 5 years old. In the summer of 12, she found out that her adoptive parents were receiving the Adoption Child Benefit on time but never told her. She was already insecure and became more distrustful of her adoptive parents.
Due to a sudden respiratory disease (asthma) during school, Aunt Lai Zi used the summer vacation to send her to Sapporo, Hokkaido, where her relative's house Kiyomasa Oiwa was recuperating.
The Oiwa family is located in a small village next to the sea. In the simple and natural environment, an old western-style building with a unique charm in the middle of the nearby wetland caught Anna's attention. It has been uninhabited for decades. One night, Anna unexpectedly found a girl's face behind the window of the villa, and it appeared in her dreams many times, arousing her infinite curiosity.
The withdrawn Anna has been unable to integrate into the lives of other girls in the town for a long time. The conflict with the neighbor girl once again made her feel self-loathing. It is a wish for her to be an ordinary person.
The unhappy parting of the temple fair made Anna very depressed. At the seaside, she saw a boat tied to a wooden stake, so Anna, who was depressed, rowed the boat to the villa, when the boat was getting closer and closer to the other side. At that time, it turned out that the uninhabited house on weekdays was actually brightly lit.
Anna Zhang stumbled to the shore, and standing in front of her was a beautiful girl with blond hair and blue eyes, dressed in Western-style pajamas. Her name is Marnie and she speaks fluent Japanese. Marnie's bare feet under the night, looked particularly beautiful. Marnie and Anna agree that what they have experienced is their secret and not to be told to others.
Fortunately, the relatives Oiwa and his wife are a very kind family, and they have given Anna full of trust and tolerance. Marnie is a gentle and lovely girl. She said that Anna was her very important secret. She wanted to know everything about Anna, and Anna also opened up to her. They rowed under the moon, danced, had a picnic together, and gathered in the forest. mushroom.
The two girls tell each other about their life experience. Marnie, who looks lively and cheerful, often travels away from her parents, leaving her to live in a mansion with the servants. The lonely Marnie is always bullied by the servants, but she envys Anna for her adoptive parents. . After getting to know Marnie, Anna's body gradually changed, a smile began to appear on her face, and her resistance to the people around her decreased a lot.
On this day, the mansion suddenly moved into a new owner. Anna's view of the wetlands caught the attention of Cai Xiang, a girl who had just moved in. She asked Anna if she was Marnie, and invited Anna to come to her house, and gave Anna a diary written by Marnie.
In fact, Xing Nai always thought that Marnie was someone she imagined and could only meet in her dreams. The diary in front of her made her a little confused. Cai Xiang believed in Marnie's existence and decided to find evidence again. In the night, Anna and Marnie met again. Anna told Marnie about her heartbreak, and Marnie also told Anna about the shadows she experienced as a child. The two wounded hearts were tightly connected.
In order to let Marnie overcome the fear in her heart, Anna took her to the barn that she had always been afraid of. The storm was raging, and Marnie climbed to the attic of the barn alone in order to overcome her fear of the barn. Anna, who went to pick up Marnie, found Marnie in the barn, and both of them were trapped in the barn.
Marnie's other friend picked her up, but left Anna. When she woke up, Anna couldn't find Marnie, and ran wildly in the rain and shouted, "Why did you even leave me?" Anna felt that Marnie betrayed her and decided not to forgive Marnie anymore.
a serious illness. Marnie, who appeared in the dream for the last time, begged Anna to forgive her. Anna cried and said that forgiveness and said goodbye to Marnie. Ayaka found several torn pages of Marnie's diary and the back of a painting that read: For Marnie, gift from Hisako.
It turned out that Auntie Jiuzi, who was sketching in the wetlands, knew Marnie and was a good friend of Marnie. Under the questioning of Anna, Jiuji talked about Marnie's life. Marnie lived in the wetland villa, and her parents who were busy with work left her there. The house was taken care of by servants, and poor Marnie even bullied the servants, but fortunately, there was Hisako by her side.
When she grew up, she also married her beloved childhood sweetheart Kazuhiko, and gave birth to their child happily after marriage, but fate played a joke on Marnie, Kazuhiko died of illness, which hit Marnie greatly, and her daughter Erimi because of this Growing up in a boarding environment that lacked love and care, she and Marnie were separated.
The long separation dilutes the relationship between Marnie and her daughter. When she returns to her mother, her daughter becomes very rebellious. Soon after leaving home, she gets married and gives birth to a baby girl. However, misfortunes do not come singly. Erimi and her husband both died, and Marnie brought Erimi's child home. However, Marnie did not come out of Erimi's grief and died the following year.
The arrival of the adoptive mother, Lai Zi, told Anna that they were in love with Xing Na and not for the pension. At the same time, Lai Zi gave her an old photo and said that it was the one she held tightly in her hand when she adopted Anna, - (The photo is in the wetlands. Villa, the focus is on the following words: My favorite home, Marnie)
It turned out that Marnie was Anna's grandmother. The things that happened in Anna's dream were the stories her grandmother told her about herself when she was a child. Annie, who is fighting against the world alone, the heaviness and bitterness that the reality dumped on her, made her dreams overlap with her childhood memories, and she loved her grandmother Marnie, who gave her a journey of companionship across time and space in her dreams. comfort.
The sick Anna seemed to be a different person, and seemed to let go of her heart. She made a friend Cai Xiang, apologized to the neighbors who had conflicts, and even called Lai Zi, who she had always called her aunt, her mother.
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