Synopsis
"Looking for Anne" presents an entirely
original story inspired by the book "Anne
of Green Gables" of the Canadian writer,
Lucy Maud Montgomery. It tells how this
single book, and the friendships that
build around it, can change the life of
people beyond time and space...
A seventeen years old, Anri, comes to
Prince Edward Island for three weeks.
Your typical shy Japanese girl, Anri gave
herself a secret mission: she wants to
find an old Canadian war veteran, with
only a single clue, or just about: he sup-
posedly lives near a lighthouse. Riding
her bicycle every day, she gradually un-
covers some small clues concerning the mysterious soldier: he was the
first love of her recently deceased grandmother, and the man who gave
her the book "Anne of Green Gables".
Faced with her own first love, the young and handsome islander Ryan,
Anri struggles to find the meaning of "true love". And quite a few people
will come to help her in her quest. First, Mari, the beautiful B&B owner in
her late fifties will act as a confident, a rose specialist and a "victim of
love". Then, Mari's neighbor, Jeff, a strange retired philosophy professor
who loves women and the bass clarinet, will come to create a certain
confusion in Anri's mind... And last, two Japanese sisters, Miyuki and
Mika, customers at the B&B will stir up some more bewilderment in the
young woman's mind.
Missing her apparent last chance to find the soldier, Anri's mission seems
to be a failure. But she might have found a taste of the essence of life
and love on the way... And a miracle could always still happen...