Locked in a steel-town frozen by a catastrophic 1991 blast, fourteen-year-old Masamune drifts through a world where even change is forbidden. When he teams up with his enigmatic classmate Mutsumi and a wild, mute girl at the fifth blast furnace, their unlikely alliance destabilizes the town and awakens a dangerous, blooming longing. An original MAPPA film directed by Mari Okada, Alice to Therese no Maboroshi Koujou fuses adolescence with fantastical stakes as love threatens to unravel the world.

Locked in a steel-town frozen by a catastrophic 1991 blast, fourteen-year-old Masamune drifts through a world where even change is forbidden. When he teams up with his enigmatic classmate Mutsumi and a wild, mute girl at the fifth blast furnace, their unlikely alliance destabilizes the town and awakens a dangerous, blooming longing. An original MAPPA film directed by Mari Okada, Alice to Therese no Maboroshi Koujou fuses adolescence with fantastical stakes as love threatens to unravel the world.