Sachio Kinugasa (Masahiro Motoki), a popular writer by the pen name of Kei Tsumura, receives notice that his wife and her good friend had died from an unforeseen accident. Sachio, in the midst of a clandestine love affair at that moment, was unable to shed not one tear while putting up a front as a tragic victim. On a whim, upon running across the young children and truck driver husband of his wife's good friend, Sachio decided to take care of the children bereaved of their beloved mother. Sachio found joy from this heretofore unknown and different sense of purpose but...