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Hirayama works as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. He seems content with his simple life.

The factory, which once employed residents of the entire city and surrounding villages, was closed due to dubious privatization and a tragic incident during which a group of its workers died in a deliberately set fire. The remaining workers, devastated by the loss of their loved ones and the consequent corrupt sale of the factory, initiate protests, but their efforts seem futile and yield no concrete results.

Valerija is an experimental documentary film conceived as an intimate encounter between the author and her ancestors.

Everyone has their own chimera, something they try to reach, but never manage to find.