Em umas férias de verão, uma senhora sobrevivente da bomba de Nagasaki está com seus quatro netos reunidos e conta para eles as lembranças do dia do ataque, que vitimou milhares de pessoas (60 mil e 80 mil seres humanos em Nagasaki), entre elas, seu marido.
Produção japonesa que apresenta uma série de curtas-metragens do diretor Akira Kurosawa. Um dos segmentos mostra um menino espionando a cerimônia de um casamento de raposas, enquanto que em outra história, um jovem é testemunha de um momento mágico no jardim. Muitos dos filmes estão interligados através de um tema ambiental.
Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old unsolved murder. Then some murders happen. Kindaichi must find out about the past in order to reveal who the murderer is.
When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by the wife of a company president who is having an affair. The woman's husband manages to buy silence about the incident, but the victim's mother discovers the identity of the driver. After she secures a job in the home of the company president and his philandering spouse, the woman plans to murder the couple's son when he reaches the age of her late son.
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself "already dead."
