Meanwhile, Sayaka finds the missing pages from Marnie's diary, which include passages about Kazuhiko and the nearby abandoned silo. Anna wakes up at the stairway, only to find Marnie gone. Anna leads Marnie to the silo, where she helps her confront her fear. Marnie then shares with Anna how her parents are always traveling abroad, how they leave her in the mansion with her nanny and two maids, and how they abuse her physically and psychologically, threatening to lock her in the silo near the mansion. Anna makes the assumption that they only pretend to love her for the money. Anna admits to finding government documents that show how her foster parents are paid to take care of her. The next day, Marnie reappears and the two girls discuss their home lives. Anna runs to the mansion, where she meets a girl named Sayaka, who discovers Marnie's diary hidden in a drawer. She also tells Anna that the mansion is being renovated for new owners. Hisako comments that Anna's sketches look like a girl whom she knew when she was young, and who used to live in the mansion.
One week later, while sitting on the shore sketching, Anna meets Hisako, an older woman who paints pictures of the marsh and the mansion. The next day, Anna returns to the mansion, but it appears abandoned and dilapidated again. Later, some townspeople find Anna asleep by the post office. While there, Anna sees Marnie dancing with a boy named Kazuhiko. Marnie disguises Anna to get her into the party. Marnie invites Anna to a party at the mansion, filled with guests. The two agree to keep their meeting secret and they meet again on the next evening. On the night of the Tanabata festival, Anna gets into an argument and runs away to the mansion across the marsh where she meets Marnie, the blonde girl. Starting that night, Anna dreams of seeing a blonde girl in the mansion. When she returns to the Oiwa's, Setsu tells her that the mansion used to be a vacation home for some foreigners, but that it has been empty for a long time. She looks around, finding it familiar, but gets trapped there by the rising tide until she is found by Toichi, a taciturn old fisherman, who brings her back to the pier with his rowboat. Yoriko discusses with Anna’s doctor about her recently withdrawn attitude and her parents decide to send her to spend the summer with Setsu and Kiyomasa Oiwa, relatives of Yoriko, in a rural, seaside town where the air is clear, located between Kushiro and Nemuro.Īnna sees an abandoned mansion across a salt marsh and goes to investigate it. One day at school, she collapses from an asthma attack. Anna Sasaki is an introverted 12-year-old girl living in Sapporo with foster parents, Yoriko and her husband.