خلاصه داستان : فیلم داستان دوستی عجیب میان یک جوان که به دلیل عدم تمایل به تعهد از نامزدش جدا شده و زن سابق او که اکنون نگران مشکلاتش با همسر فعلی‌اش است را به تصویر می‌کشد و ...

Maruo, an independent film director, feels that he doesn't want to have sex because he loves her, and because of this, he breaks up with his girlfriend Aki. Unable to forget Aki, he tries to make a new movie based on his experience, but is stuck in writing the script. Why couldn't he hold Aki? Unable to find the answer himself, Maruo decides to meet her again to face that question. On the other hand, Aki is married to Tagashira, an office worker, but even though she wants to have children, she is worried about a sexless marital relationship. When Aki meets Maruo again after a long time, she asks him to give her some of his sperm.

خلاصه داستان : میناکو، یک زن پنجاه ساله و مجرد، یک روز شیر را به خانهٔ عشق اولش، تاکاناشی، که اکنون ازدواج کرده است و همسرش در مرحلهٔ پایانی بیماری است، تحویل می‌دهد. این دیدار تغییرات غیرمنتظره‌ای را در زندگی آن‌ها به همراه می آورد ...

Minako (TANAKA Yuko), begins her day running up and down the hills of her hometown delivering milk door to door. When that's done, she heads to her day job as a supermarket cashier. Minako is 50 and single. In one of the houses to which she delivers milk is a man with whom she has secretly been in love since high school. The man, Keita (KISHIBE Ittoku), lives with his wife Yoko, who is terminally ill. Caring for her at home, he works in the children's affairs section of the local municipal office. Though he insists that he wants nothing more than an "ordinary" existence, his life is in turmoil below the surface. The director uses a variety of narrative devises to portray the loneliness, isolation, and hope of these people who have seemingly allowed their goals and dreams to slip away, whilst keeping them agonizingly close to hand.