A novelist Rihito Shiraishi meets Saki Honda, a somewhat eccentric woman, and he is attracted to her. Triggered by Saki's suicidal attempt and reading her diary, Shiraishi recognizes that their encounter was not a coincidence. United by an airplane accident, they start to face their true selves eventually, influencing one another.
SHOTA comes back to his hometown to attend father's funeral from Tokyo after a long time. After the funeral, He goes for a walk in his dear old home, meets with GENJIRO who's a master of stone mason and becomes his pupil. Just SHOTA's practices with GENJIRO starts to be a stone mason like his father. This story is about 'Kizuna' which means a strong bond among family, friends, animals and even plants, connecting everything from this world and the world beyond.
Mika (Marie Ono), a Japanese-American woman, returns to her native Saitama hometown and becomes a therapist for a "nemuriba" ("a place to sleep").
Yuichiro wants to be an film director but his widowed mother wants him to become a doctor. As radiation leaks permeate the city, he tries to clear his debts by signing up for a dangerous medical experiment...
Classmate
Sakutaro está a vísperas de su boda, pareciera que todo va bien, hasta que su novia Ritsuko decide desaparecer por un tiempo. Sakutaro está desesperado ya que además se avecina un gran tifón a la ciudad. Entre todas las noticias del tifón, Sakutaro ve a Ritsuko en la televisión, en una ciudad distante pero que le es bastante especial. Es entonces cuando él decide ir en su búsqueda, sin embargo, terminará desviándose de su objetivo para encontrarse cara a cara con un pasado que dejó inconcluso.
