Frustrated with her mundane life, a Tokyo office worker becomes obsessed with a fictional movie that she mistakes for a documentary. Fixating on a scene where stolen cash is buried in North Dakota, she travels to America to find it.
This movie contains 1 potentially triggering events.
Kumiko's pet rabbit Bunzo comes to no direct harm onscreen, but he is abandoned on a train, leaving his fate unknown. He reappears at the end of the film, but let's just say that the reality of this sequence is very much open to question.
There is a town sheriff who is portrayed as someone with good intentions, trying to be helpful but who doesn't really know how to help. He is not valorized, just a guy.