Watching extended scenes of her non-verbal approach forces us to look far past the words of Uncle Vanya, as Chekhov and Stanislavski intended, until even the verbal translations by her delightfully chipper interpreter Yoon-soo Jin Dae-yeon begin to fade into background noise.
While he's still grappling with his wife's passing, the theater company requires that he be chauffeured around in his own car by a woman named Misaki Watari.
Watari gets the same red car that she drove Kafuku around in, got a treatment to reduce the scar on her cheek, and got a dog.