An international co-production depicting the woes and aspirations of Japan’s working poor, set in Yamagata and directed by an Englishman. Through charming and sincere revelations about his own life, he asks simple questions about Japan’s dark realities as an industrial power as he builds on friendships and changes relationships.Naoki once had it all - the fast car, the executive home. Boss of his own business he lived the good-life when Japan's economy was at it's height. Then the bubble burst - and he met Yoshie.