Aki and Naoko are childhood friends who are drifting apart as adults. Immersed in her family life, Naoko now has a husband and daughter; Aki, on the other hand, remains single and is on leave from work due to a personal crisis. The plot might sound familiar but it has never been told like this. The director Kusano Natsuka stages the interactions through an actors’ table-read and, as the lines are repeated, the scenes gradually develop into on-location conversations. Moreover, she repositions the dramatic peak of the story to the beginning: Aki has murdered Naoko’s daughter.　　Structurally inventive, Kusano's daring cinema implements ‘distantiation’ effects to get to the heart of friendship issues at times when life has settled. While the repetitions convey the suffocation of role patterns in both friendship and family, a line left out or added in unsettles and reminds us life can take unexpected turns.

在好友宫田（Miyata）的陪同下，佐野（Sano）回到了日本的海滨度假胜地伊豆，五年前他在这里爱上了如今已故的妻子的凪（Nagi）。　　佐野初次邂逅亡妻的海边旅馆如今濒临倒闭，他重返故地，试图找回一顶五年前丢失的红色帽子，那是彼时爱的信物，也是此时失落的证明。

本作は、道の片隅に咲く花草を愛し、ささやかに生きる男女の生活を描く物語。画家のナズナは恋人?キタムラとの壮絶な生活に精神のバランスを崩し、コタロウの部屋に逃げ込む。ナズナは花や草を愛するコタロウの愛に包まれて落ち着きを取り戻していくが、コタロウの勤める出版社が潰れたことで、2人の生活に亀裂が生じるのだった。