Rumi Shiina

かつて、妻の浮気に逆上し妻を殺してしまった男・山下拓郎。以来、極度の人間不信に陥った山下は仮出所後、理髪店を営みながらも人々との交流を避け、本音を明かす唯一のパートナーとして“うなぎ”を選ぶ。ある日、山下は河原で自殺未遂の女性・桂子を助ける。桂子は恩返しにと理髪店の手伝いを申し出て、山下は渋々雇うことにするが…。

People from all walks of life (a high-school student, a middle-aged businessman, a yakuza chief, etc.) all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to go to a small island in the Inland Sea that evening. At the stroke of midnight, the lost ship emerges from the sea and they are given a brief time to say their final words to their lost loved ones, before the deceased must once again board the ship and it sinks back into the depths.