"From the North" with warmth loving strokes, describing the love of family, love of humanity. Because his wife was having an affair and divorce blackboard Goro, with a son and daughter from Tokyo came idyllic life Furano, Hokkaido. They describe delicate film in the north of Furano of rural life and love , as well as into social work, married and have children from school. Despite all the disappointments characters life experiences and the reality that they can not control, but they can eventually overcome the adversity faced, more understanding of people and things around.