Four women of different ages work at or frequent an ice cream shop, each dealing with dreams, timidity, inexperience with love, and personal pain, their lives intersecting at the shop.
Noboru runs a real-estate agency in a provicial Hokkaido mountain town. He is despised by the locals for his aggressive business practices. His daughter, Nana—a high school senior—bears the brunt of their anger; and yet, she resolves to stay after graduation, even though her father wants her to leave with him for Tokyo.
When scandal leaves actress Rie unemployable, she returns to her hometown for the first time in a decade for a documentary shoot. But mayhem ensues when assistant director Saki is the only person who shows up. Rie left town after getting in a fight with her father Yasuo, and now he is dealing with terminal cancer.
