厌烦了家乡一成不变的生活，24年前，对大都市东京满怀憧憬的天野春子（小泉今日子 饰）在北三陆电车开通首日离家出走。此去经年，早已成家但生活并不舒心的春子接到母亲病危的短信，于是带着女儿秋（能年玲奈 饰）返回家乡。如之前所料，这一切不过是好友大向大吉（杉本哲太 饰）的骗局，其目的是希望春子能够接替母亲夏（宫本信子 饰），继承当地有着悠久历史且即将消亡的海女职业。存有深深芥蒂的母女俩针锋相对，争执不断；而从未与外婆谋面的秋却深深为碧海蓝天以及海女所吸引。经过数日盘桓，被东京压抑的空气逼迫得喘不上气来的秋作出人生中重要的决定，那就是留下来成为一名海女。
全新的天地与道路，可爱的女孩对血缘和命运的回归，寻找发自心底的快乐……

Three patients of different backgrounds, illnesses and stages are being treated at a psychiatric clinic in Nagano Prefecture. Their cases range from the criminal to merely asocial. That should be that, but soon matters take a darker turn when a corpse turns up and a murder has occurred. The culprit fingered is one of the patients.

The arrival of an intimate letter prompts a young woman to bring her mother on vacation to a small Japanese town, where someone special resides.

A young man awakens in the hospital after an accident wipes his memory. Fascinated by a textbook full of drawings of dissections, Hiroshi is drawn to medical school. There he catches the eye of a fellow student, but it's another who becomes his obsession: the dead woman on the cadaver table.

A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up poisoning and replacing the school's brass band.