The movie revolves around Mitsuba, who studies traditional art of rakugo. Rakugo is a form of comical story telling, sometimes referred to as sit-down comedy. Even though Mitsuba is mediocre at best, he ends up teaching three students.

根据获得日本文学最高奖直木奖小说改编。2006年 日本《电影旬报》年度十大佳片之一。 曾获得直木小说奖的角田光代的小说《对岸的她》由安孙子三和执笔漫画版，此次在白泉社Silky 的6月号亮相。一个是已婚有孩子的全职家庭主妇，一个是独身没有孩子的女社长。身份完全不同的二人，是否能产生友情呢？完全不同的生活轨迹是否会有十子的交叉呢？ 这部讲述两个女人友情的电影，。儘管如今讲述友情的电影很难把握分寸，好像一不留心就会被搞成了同志情愫，这部电影看上去还是很温暖。女孩友情和女人友情的交叉敍述，时空交错，最终还安排了两对人在河边聊天的非现实镜头，给人一种暖上心头的感觉。

During a quest to find a Taiwanese father's grave, disturbing memories of child abuse are aroused.

When pregnant lunchbox factory worker Yayoi has finally taken all the abuse she can handle, she strangles her brutish husband and disposes of the body parts, piece by piece. She's soon joined by three down on their luck housewives who murder their own husbands and find various ways to hide the evidence.

Maki is a talented copper plate artist, however, just before her first gallery show, she gets struck by a truck. When she comes to she is at home. When she ventures outside, the city is deserted and she knows something is deeply wrong. Each day repeats; she wakes up at 2:15 in the afternoon. Gradually things start change, the phone rings, and she finds that she is not alone...