In Tokyo, the boy Sho has a heart condition and is neglected
by his parents. He moves to the house of his Aunt Sadako and her
housemaid Haru to wait for a heart surgery, but he is depressed
with the absence of his mother. Meanwhile the fourteen-year-old
Arrietty lives on the underground of Sadako's house with her father
Pod and her hysterical mother Homily. They are Borrowers,
tiny people that collect simple things they need in the house.
Sho sees Arrietty in the garden and during the night, she participates
for the first time in a harvest with her father. Arrietty accidentally
drops a sugar cube in Sho's bedroom, but the next morning Sho leaves
the cube near a window in the basement. Arrietty's parents decide to
move to another place since they have been discovered by an inhabitant
of the house. But there is the menace of Haru who wants to capture the
tiny people.
-Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
