A Permanent PartTimer in Distress

The director twentythreeyearold Iwabuchi Hiroki is a permanent parttimer who on weekdays does menial work at a factory for 1250 yen an hour and on weekends takes on casual temporary work in Tokyo a city he is fascinated with He joins a demonstration demanding rights for permanent parttimers and is featured on TV as a poor unhappy temporary worker Despite having made his own choice to live as a permanent parttimer he says that the days feel like drowning in shallow water But during the diarylike documentation of his life something changes