Based on a story by Haruki Murakami. Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, is happily married to the screenwriter Oto. Suddenly, Oto dies and leaves behind a secret. Two years later, Kafuku, who has not yet come to terms with the loss of his beloved wife, receives an offer to direct Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" at a theatre festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, a reserved young woman who is assigned to him as a chauffeur. During their journeys together, driver and passenger open up to each other, and in the process Kafaku is caught up in the riddles of the past that haunt him in silence.