Actor Kafuku finds an unlikely confidant in his quiet, self-assured new personal driver Misaki; divulging and discussing his feelings on the recent death of his beloved but unfaithful wife.

A Japanese woman who has begun to forget her name, frantically seeks the help of an eccentric clinician who eventually claims to know what happened to her name.

A daughter, on the verge of becoming a mother, learns a great deal in spending time with her own mother.

A mother, her two children, and their stepfather come over to a friend’s for a dinner on Labor Day.

A maid, silently and in thought alone, contemplates her own position in a house full of opulent, decadent lives.

A woman embarks on a treacherous, snowy journey to help her friend.

The ex-wife of a famous male writer considers a story he wrote about a neighbor they once had.