Momoko, seventy-four and living alone, goes on with her days after the death of her husband and amid a sense of distance from her children. As she drinks tea and listens for mice in a quiet home, multiple inner voices speaking in the Tohoku dialect rise within her, leading her to reconsider aging, solitude, and independence.

The voices in the Tohoku dialect that rise within Momoko bring a new sense of life into her solitude.