Сацуки не может смириться с внезапной смертью любимого человека и пребывает в глубокой печали. Она продолжает думать о феномене лунной тени, о котором она когда-то слышала, - загадочном событии, которое позволяет человеку встретить мертвых в конце полнолуния. По одноименной повести Ёсимото Бананы.
Ayako (Akazawa), a housewife who spends her days nursing her father-in-law and taking care of her husband, bumps into her former lover Keisuke (Ueda Koichi), who is now married and has became a cleaner. When Ayako was a junior high school student fourteen years ago, she was involved in a forbidden love affair with Keisuke who had been a teacher at the time.
Four beautiful sisters are entrusted with taking care of Kinjiro, a giant salamander and national treasure. Rumors spread that Kinjiro is an impostor, so a genius x-ray technician is sent to run some tests.
