When novelist Hyun-soo moves to a new place, he is suddenly visited by a strange woman who says that she used to live there. Hyun-soo and Jeong-yoon discuss a movie Jeong-yoon plans to make, but this results in them breaking up and say their goodbyes. A stranger named Yoon-joo tells Hyun-soo a secret about his dead wife So-young, and he decides to go explore her past. Novelist Jeong-yoon goes to meet Yoon-joo, the person she based her novel on, in order to finish some business. They are all wandering, in her memories, in his novel and in their movies...
Two sisters find their wealthy aunt is terminally ill and plan to get their inheritance, the sisters plan to improve their relationship, but when they find that they are not the only ones in the family with a similar plan.
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本片榮獲「電影旬報」年度十大電影第三位及最佳男主角獎！身影漸遠；記憶猶在！故土深情；有誰共鳴？在瀨戶內海的倉橋島上，一對靠用船搬運石頭為、過著簡單生活的夫婦，因為工業化的關係，雖然深愛故鄉，但為了追尋更光明的前景和新天地，卻不得不離開。這是一部歌頌故土深情而又充滿感慨的言志作品，是《男人之苦》、《幸福黃手絹》導演山田洋次特別有感而發的作品。他在故事發生的廣島縣倉橋島居住了一個多月，精心構思劇本，還大膽起用當地作即興演出，結果成績蜚然，被公認為山田的畢生傑作之一。