Director Yasujiro Ozu teams with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa to remake his 1934 masterpiece and delivers an elegant update of a classic tale. An actor returns to his hometown with his girlfriend and discovers he still has feelings for an old love. She bore him a son he now wants to get to know. But when the actor's girlfriend learns of his son, she hatches a plan that threatens to expose and destroy the boy's relationship with his father.