Centres on Jeanne, a journalist tracking a mysterious rare herb that appears only once every 997 years.

Sentaro runs a small bakery that serves dorayaki pastries filled with sweet red bean paste (“an”). When an old lady, Tokue, offers to help in the kitchen he reluctantly accepts. She will soon prove to have magic in her hands…

A caregiver at a small retirement home takes one of her patients for a drive to the country, but the two wind up stranded in a forest where they embark on an exhausting and enlightening two-day journey.

The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a lazy eye, and Misako who disconnects from the world.