Yusuke Kafuku is a stage actor and director happily married to his playwright wife. Then one day she disappears.
Two years after his wifes death, Yusuke receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle Vanya at a theater festival. As tensions mount amongst the cast and crew, Yusuke is forced to confront painful truths raised from his past with the help of Misaki, a young woman assigned to chauffeur him.
