Based on an award winning novel, It's Only Talk is about the life of Yuko, a 35-year old woman. She is single and unemployed, and suffers from manic depression. The movie begins with Yuko moving to Kamata Town.

Uehara Jiro, in the sixth year at elementary school, is from a family of five; his parents who are both ex-extremists, his elder sister and a younger sister. Children look coldly at their father, Ichiro (Toyokawa Etsushi), who does not work but is quick at lashing out for anything illogical. One day, Jiro snaps at a junior high school student in the neighborhood who ridiculed his parents and causes a violent incident. Being tired of all the fuss made by the school and the response from the child welfare, the Uehara family moves to the island of Iriomotejima, father's hometown. However, the island is in the midst of a row over a development plan to build resort facilities, and the family is sucked into the mayhem. Ichiro and his wife Sakura are arrested, but they break loose. They are forced to live a life as fugitives, and are unable to live with their children. The children, however, understand that their parents do not want to succumb to the establishment and support them.

A Christmas Eve power outage provides a collection of troubled Tokyo denizens the opportunity to come clean on the misdeeds of their past.

因车祸不幸丧生的导盲犬心愿未了，无法进入天堂。在神的帮助下，它借助一个男人（丰川悦司 饰）的身体返回人间，寻找自幼犬时便爱慕的女孩（井川遥 饰）。如今这个女孩已成为幼儿园的老师，男人几经探寻，终于和她邂逅，经过一段时间相处，导盲犬竟与当年的小主人共坠爱河。然而，他们的交往引起了女孩男朋友东海小次郎（泉谷しげる 饰）的嫉妒，而另一方面，导盲犬所借助的身体则来自于一个警方正在通缉的金融在逃犯。
这段奇异的恋情最终将如何结束？
本片荣获2002年亚太电影节最佳音乐奖。