“Cinema verite portrait of the artist's 47-year-old sister from the time immediately following brain surgery to her complete recovery. The entire family had gathered at the hospital and Michishita used the opportunity to talk with all of them about women's roles in general and that of her sister in particular in relation to other family members.” – Museum of Modern Art (New York)

“My sister Tazuko [...], married to an architect, and the mother of three children, in November 1973 had two brain surgeries for two aneurysms. Although the doctor asked her husband to contact all of her close relatives after her second attack, she survived. My mother flew in from Hokkaido and stayed with her daughter in the hospital room for four months, taking care of her, determined to save her life even when there was very little chance for her to survive. This tape, which happened to be my first videotape, is the record of how she was recovering, both physically and mentally, after the fear of her death, which all of us had felt during those months, had finally disappeared. While she, like any other housewife, was mainly missed for doing housework for her family, she at the same time was beginning to take her own life more seriously.” – Kyoko Michishita, in Video from Tokyo to Fukui and Kyoto (ed. Barbara J. London, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1979)