乍一看，这是一个非常普通的日本家庭，但事实上，每个人都有不想让别人知道的秘密。直到有一天健二回到他空荡荡的家，一切都开始浮出水面。。。这部电影以东京的一个四口之家为缩影，深入展示了其内部动荡，勾勒出其成员的挣扎，从而指挥了东京乃至日本无数人在世界经济格局转变、金融危机、中东战争等动荡局势中的生存处境。这部电影被选为2008年《电影周刊》的十大日本电影之一。获得戛纳电影节评委会“一个焦点”单元奖。在第三届亚洲电影奖（AFA）上获得最佳编剧和最佳影片两项大奖。
An affluent medical professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Setsuko is a liberated woman who does what she wants, including smoking, even though she is a minor. On Saturday, the professor does not feel like going to his weekend golf game, but his wife packs him off anyway. So he leaves his bag at the apartment of his student Okada, and goes to a bar with a friend. Setsuko traces him there, and insists that he take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada to take her home, while he sleeps at Okada's. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home, and also of her husband when she discovers that he did not go golfing.
