Nobusuke Hirata
Mientras su mujer viaja con unas amigas para ver la aurora boreal, el abuelo aprovecha para retomar antiguas amistades y rememorar viejos tiempos. Después de un pequeño accidente de circulación sin importancia se desatará el caos en la familia Hirata. Sus hijos se reunirán para intentar que deje de conducir pero el abuelo no se lo pondrá fácil.
Shuichi Furukawa receives a phone call from his mother. She reminds him that they are moving the next day. The following day, Shuichi takes a train ride back to his hometown. He arrives at his parents home, but nobody is home. He looks for the house key under a potted plant but can't find the key. He starts to thinks back to his childhood days in his parents home. Shuichi grew up with his younger brother, older sister, father who ran a shoe making business out of their garage and mother. Shuichi grew up with a crush on an older woman who lived next door and he loved to make piggy banks out of empty whiskey bottles. One day on a school picnic, Shuichi's classmates grabbed a lunchbox from a fellow student and eventually gave the lunch box to Shuichi. All the other students chanted "throw it away," while Shuichi's former friend looked on in despair.
