Synopsis

Oden steams beside the heat. The stage is a prefabricated soba restaurant in Goshogawara City, Aomori. Open for only a few hours each night, the shop is small, designed for standing diners. Yet, it draws a surprising number of visitors: parents who make it a ritual on their journeys home, a mother who has taken on a second job to support her daughter in Tokyo, the sister of an apple farmer with three generations rooted in the land, and those who have left the Tsugaru region, drawn back by a sens