在这部听不见的练习曲纪录片片中,2015年的炎炎夏日,天生失聰的導演今村彩子騎著單車,踏上長達57天3824公里的長征,跨越日本南北端;對今村彩子而言,這不只是生理上的挑戰,更是關於「溝通」的巨大考驗。因喪失聽力而無法正常地與人對話,是她心裡一直以來的陰影與挫折,這次今村彩子決定正面迎擊!除了透過鏡頭一窺日本的家國風采,更是今村彩子對於自我的探究之旅。
In the summer of 2015, filmmaker Ayako Imamura declared that she would do a documentary film of herself riding a bicycle across the length of Japan. The title of the film would be Start Line. She believed that she had to do this documentary film as a way to confront head on some things she had been avoiding, that is she had to do this in order to move on.