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Based on book by Watanabe Junichi (渡辺淳一). Takafumi Kurusu, who is a qualified doctor, has succeeded his late father and is the director of a nursing home in central Tokyo but he is unable to get used to the facility's policy of respecting the residents' freedom and spends his days feeling depressed. Takafumi is overwhelmed and confused by the energy of the residents, but he eventually changes his own view of love and his way of life and learns the spirit of "et alors (So what?)".