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Unhappy with her family and mundane suburban life in Tokoyama, 17-year-old Shimabara Noriko (Fukiishi Kazue ) runs away to Tokyo. She joins a circle of discontented schoolgirls led by Kumiko (Tsugumi), the proprietor of Family Circle, a business in which the girls are rented out to people to create pseudo-families. Soon Noriko's younger sister Yuko (Yoshitaka Yuriko) also joins her in Tokyo. The girls find solace and a deeper understanding of family in their new lives and identities. Blindly submitting to the increasingly sinister Kumiko's misleading guidance, the girls slowly lose their original selves. What appears to be a comforting service to create families is actually a shocking plan to destroy the girls.
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