毫无名气的落语家优太郎（大泉洋 饰），其人生最大的幸福就是认识了美丽善良的妻子沙耶（新垣结衣 饰）。虽然生活贫苦，不过伴随着儿子优介呱呱落地，他们俨然正朝着幸福的彼岸航行。怎奈命运无常，优太郎在一场车祸中死去。由于对妻儿太过牵挂，他并没有往生，而是以幽灵的状态盘桓在沙耶身边。葬礼上与优太郎绝交许久的父亲（石桥凌 饰）突然出现，而优太郎情急之中竟然附体在师父的身上，并且劝告沙耶尽快逃跑。慌不择路的沙耶带着孩子来到了一个名叫佐佐良的偏僻小镇。在这里她遇到了各种各样性格满满的人，优太郎也一次又一次附体在他人身上回到妻儿身边。母女的未来将会如何？ 本片根据加纳朋子的小说《佐佐良沙耶》改编。

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him discover the joys of friendship, music and love.

This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 novel by Osamu Dazai, the story centers less on the womanizing, heavy-drinking, suicidal hero than on the wife who loves him. Written by Palm Springs International Film Festival