This program provides a touching portrait of nine-year-old Michitsuji Yuna, a blind girl from the city of Isahaya in Nagasaki Prefecture who dreams of delighting people as a singer. While introducing the loving and resilient family who supports her, it portrays Yuna as a strong and determined person who stays true to her dream after losing her sight when she was just 4 months old.

This program documents 5 years at a bathhouse in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, that has long provided emotional comfort for local residents. In a time when bathhouses are quickly vanishing from Japan, this program shows the important role the public bathhouse serves as a place where the people of a community can gather, communicate, care for each other, and share laughter.

Professor Jeffrey S. Irish of the International University of Kagoshima is the protagonist of this documentary. He's an American man who lives in a rural town in Japan. And in an effort to save the town he lives in from the looming threat of total depopulation, Jeffrey sets out on a difficult challenge to secure vacant houses so that people from other areas can move into the town he loves so dearly.