Being Born (Umareru) follows an infertile couple, an expecting couple, a couple whose baby lived for only one day, and a couple with a baby who has an incurable disability. It explores what it means to be born or not born, what it means to be alive, and the relationship one has with parents, society, and oneself.

Being Born

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Two identical twin brothers are raised by their traumatized father as one person. They go separately to school, sleep in the same bed and listen to the same name Thomas. The brothers look very similar, but their personalities are different. Only the passion for painting brings the twins together. After years of keeping their existence away from the world, the twins decide to follow their big dream. They want to become painters. The brothers leave their father, move into a house near a city and begin to work hard for success. Nevertheless the twins have to face, what had been silenced for years.