Art director Naoki Hayakawa works 16 hours daily in a creative, neo-totalitarian advertisement company in Tokyo. The working pressure causes a mental condition between sleep and wakefulness where he has strange and wonderful dreams.

The Lost Dreams of Naoki Hayakawa

The director meets his uncle Yuji for first time in NY in 2015 after Yuji left Tokyo to play salsa in Spanish Harlem in the late 70’s. The film presents mixed emotions of initial admiration and the realisation of what it means to live as an artist through a lifetime.