An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is abroad in Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes him to imagine her as the personification of his impending fate. As his dialogue with his imagined mortality continues, he meets the living woman, the template for his fantasy, and together, they tour rural churches. Gradually, he comes to some kind of peace about the diagnosis. When he returns to Japan, he is met with a series of challenges that profoundly test the lessons he has learned.
as Tajihei Itsuki
as Madame Marcelin
as Narrator
as Funazu
as Akiko Itsuki
as Kiyoko Itsuki
as Akihiko Kishi
as Kishi's wife
as Sunami
as Itsuki's stepmother
as Taisuke (Itskuki's brother)
as Toyoshima
as Itsuki family's maid
as Tappei Yakubi
as Dr. Kihara
as Akiko's husband
as Taisuke, Tajihei's brother
as Tappei Yabuki
as Akihiko Kishi
