Tired of the busy and mechanized boring life in the metropolis, the imaginative Rie (Tomoyo Harada) and her gentle and considerate husband fled Tokyo and settled on a small hill next to a lake in Tsukigaura, Hokkaido. The Mizuko couple runs a bakery coffee shop called Máni here. The two divide the work to make delicious food and entertain people who come and go. That year, the sad Saito Kaori (Kanna Mori) met the youth Yamashita Toshio (Yuta Hiraoka) who was always trapped in Hokkaido, and pure feelings quietly arose; the silent little girl Weijiu (Yuki Yagi) and her father (Ken Mitsuishi) held the thought of their mother and found comfort in Máni; the terminally ill old woman and gentleman visited here and savored the last moment of life. The cold and the hot, the love gathers and separates, and the river of life flows slowly with the aroma of coffee and bread...