A robust comedy subjected in death with tough-minded satire.
Summer, Yoshiko receives a phone call about her grandfather's death when she is having sex with her boyfriend. Thus, the funeral of her grandfather begins with slovenly uncle, termagant aunt, shut-in cousin, and grandma who have dementia. No one cries at the funeral. Through accidents happening, Yoshiko sees feelings of her families that she hasn't noticed before and starts to think about "life" and "death". After, she makes a new step out to visit the Ganges River in India.
即使沒有人哭泣,我們仍是一家人。
炎炎夏日,一通響個不停的電話,打斷了吉子(岸井友希乃飾演)與男友翻雲覆雨的性致。電話當中,吉子得知爺爺往生的消息…。隨後,爺爺的三個小孩與其家人也匆匆趕來老家準備後事。負責主祭又焦躁不安的長男昭夫(岩松了飾演),與急著幫失智奶奶找養老院的弟弟清二(光石研飾演),水火不容的兩人一見面就吵架;加上在東京有好發展卻選擇不婚的女兒薰(水野美紀飾演),三人的緊張關係與矛盾情結也默默爆發。而身為孫女的吉子,更因為爺爺往生時,自己在跟男友做愛而懷抱罪惡感,並思考著人的生與死…。
家家有本難念的經,爺爺的告別式眼看就要變成一場鬧劇,究竟這家人能否凝聚力量,一同讓爺爺安心上路呢?