Brief Meetings is about a love triangle between three very different people. Nadia, a country girl, falls in love with Maskim, a roaming guitar playing geologist, and in her search for him she ends up working for Valentina, his long-distance, bureaucrat wife. Nadia begins to work as a maid for Valentina, but as they spend time together they have flashbacks to their brief meetin...
留守儿童丫丫，非常渴望外出打工的妈妈能回到自己身边。做布画的奶奶为了能让孙女乖乖的，不影响自己干活，就骗她说，你只要攒够了81枚金币（即五角硬币），妈妈就能回来。为了实现这个梦想，丫丫捡废品卖钱，妈妈...
厌倦了大都会的奔波忙碌和机械化枯燥无味的生活，自有充满幻想的理绘（原田知世饰）与温柔体贴的丈夫逃离东京，定居在北海道月浦一个毗邻湖泊的小山丘上。水缟夫妇在此经营一家名叫Máni的面包咖啡店，二人分工做出美味的食品，宴请来往驻足的人们。那一年，伤心的齐藤香织（森カンナ饰）与始终困在北海道的青年山下时生（平冈佑太饰）结识，纯纯的情愫悄然而生；沉默的小女孩未久（八木优希饰）与父亲（光石研饰）抱持着对母亲的思念，在Máni找到了慰籍；病入膏肓的老妇人和先生来访于此，品味着人生最后的时刻。 寒来暑往，爱聚离合，生命之河伴随着咖啡与面包的香气缓缓流淌……
