Saori is a high school student at a provincial city. She is a member of playgroup at her school. Yoshioka begins to work at the same high school as a new teacher. Yoshioka performed in plays when she was in college back in Tokyo.  Saori, Yukko, Garuru, Nakanishi, Akemi decides to compete in a play competition. Their goal is to make it through the regional competions, but Teacher Yoshioka tells them their aiming low and that they should think about the national competition.

The Curtain Rises

An omnibus featuring five stories and five segments the film revolves around the radio and its listeners. There are different hosts, announcers and DJs and a bevvy of listeners. The listeners range from a band hearing its own song on the radio to a woman trapped in a building relying on the sound of the radio to find her way out.

Listener

Three families live in a town through which a wide river courses. The first family is comprised of a wife and husband who lost their child in an accident. The mother is fishing to get her son back. The second family has two daughters and the parents are divorcing. The girls have to choose between the father and the mother. The daughter in the third family is at the hospital because her uncle is about to die there. They have a reason for visiting.

Shizumanai mittsu no ie

İki ay ömrü kaldığını öğrenen bir anne, kısa bir sürede yapması gerekenleri yapmaya çalışır. Evi terk eden kocasını bulmalı ve aile işini tekrar işler hale getirmelidir. Kendisi yokken aileyle ilgilenmesi için kızını hazırlamalıdır. Bu durumda aile bağları kuvvetlenecek midir yoksa tersi mi olacaktır?