Meaning "silence", Shizuka is the tale of a wish-granting island in Japan. People who make the pilgrimage to the island live there and make the same wish every day for a year, in the hope that it will come true. However, all pilgrims must live a life of silence and concentration for their wish to come true, meaning that they cannot speak or write at all during their time on the island. One pilgrim is wishing for love, and the other...Shot semi-documentary style on location in the Japanese countryside, it is a film about how far people will go to get what they want.