The film is centred around the drama of the people in a western style apartment block called Hisuikan, in Hokodate, Hokkaido Japan.
Ogiwara Toshiko, the owner of the Hisuikan (Jade Museum- a western style apartment block in Hakodate Japan), rents rooms as studios and dwellings to young people who follow their dreams.
Many artists live there and fulfill their work; Kazuto Horikuchi is a decorative glass craftworker, Kotaro Aizawa a teddy bear maker and Sawako Fujimura, a professional photographer using pinhole cameras.
One day in summer, Eiji Hiyama arrives from Tokyo, instead of the expected furniture craftsman Yabushita who was supposed to come to the Jade Museum.
Hikiyama, comes to the apartment from Tokyo as a new resident, and starts to run a second-hand bookstore to resell books online.