A Class to Remember

At a night school a diverse group of students ranging from teenagers to the elderly, smart to the under-developed and of different races have been assembled to study and finally hopefully graduate. The assignment to graduate includes an essay, but life proves itself more real than that as the students soon find out.

AOYAMA Ryuhei must deal with the fact that two of his students at a special high school for the learning impaired; Takashi and Yuya have just disappeared. He set out to look for them with his fellow teacher, KOBAYASHI Daisuke. After searching for both students almost everywhere they could imagine they would go, the teachers are amazed to see them flying over in the balloon. Takashi and Yuya are scolded after that but Ryuhei does not feel so strict to his students. He believes that teaching is not just teaching students but giving them back what they give the teachers.

A widow who has raised her autistic son alone loses her job and begins attending a technical college. She meets others looking for a new start in life, including a former salary-man with whom she begins a furtive romance.

Bored with school, 15-year-old Daisuke Kawashima embarks on a pilgrimage to visit the 7,000-year-old cedar tree on distant Yakushima Island. Through his journey, Daisuke meets a number of interesting people, including friendly truck driver Sumire and a mysterious mountaineer girl.