[4] It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony.

A railway station master at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter.

When the line serving the village is scheduled for closure, an erstwhile colleague offers him a job at a resort hotel, but he is emotionally unable to part with his career as a railwayman.

His life takes a turn when he meets a young woman with an interest in trains who resembles his daughter.

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