In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregnant by a man she does not want to marry and has found a kindred spirit in a used bookstore owner who aids her research.
In post-WWII Osaka, a middle-aged woman is forced to examine her dreary life and marriage when her husband's young and flirtatious cousin arrives for a brief stay to escape an arranged marriage.
Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates. Hiromi plunges deeper into this world to raise money for an expensive ring.
Eski mahkum Max ile karısı tarafından terk edilen ve tek arzusu yeni doğan bebeğini görmek olan Lionel’in birlikte çıktıkları yoldaki sıradışı öyküleri.
James ve ömür boyu en yakın üç arkadaşı, Batı Galler'deki çarpıcı kıyı bölgesi Barafundle Körfezi'ne akıl almaz bir geziye çıkarlar. Ardından dostluk, kahramanlık ve aşkla ilgili dokunaklı ve komik bir macera var.