影片讲述Kenzaburo(中川雅也饰)在妻子Akiko(木村多江饰)去世后，带着儿子(锦户亮饰)离开日本，前往《彼得兔》作者碧翠丝·波特的故乡英格兰湖区旅行，因为Akiko儿时很喜欢《彼得兔》的故事，她一直希望能和Kenzaburo一起去英格兰湖区旅行。Kenzaburo必须要实现Akiko的遗愿，将她的骨灰撒到当地的湖中。Kenzaburo与儿子发生争执后，最终独自前往了英格兰湖区。在经过噩梦般的入境过程，Kenzaburo最终遇到了约翰(希德饰)和他的女儿玛丽(巴克利饰)，他们之间产生了浓厚的友谊，而Kenzaburo也意识到自己需要和儿子一起追寻这段象征性的旅程，并最终揭开一个长久以来的秘密。

When a screenwriter named KAORU dies suddenly, she leaves behind a tangle of relations who are all pulled together for the final act in her life: performing her funeral. The chief mourner is her ex-husband, Jun. A failed actor, he drifts around Tokyo as a driver for callgirls. He has to clean himself up to lead the ceremony down in the small village in Okayama that KAORU came from. There, he meets a host of eccentric characters, TV people, and KAORU ’s daughter, all of whom have complicated feelings for the recently departed. As can be guessed, the funeral becomes chaotic as people quarrel and fight but the fact that KAORU was loved is not in doubt as nostalgia, bitterness, and affection for the woman come out from each mourner in comic confrontations.