Synopsis

The first radio broadcast in Japan started on 22 March 1925. On that day, a girl named Yasuko is born to Tachibana Kinta and Koshizu who owned a Japanese-style confectionary shop on a shopping street in Okayama City. She grew up in a warm family surrounded by the sweet scent of red bean paste and hopes that her family will remain happy. But as war approaches, various tribulations befall Yasuko. However, her encounter with an English-language radio program paves the way for a new future. After losing her husband Minoru in the war, she has no choice but to leave her daughter Rui and go to America. Kijima Rui hates her parents and English. But she is saved by jazz songs and builds a life for herself in Osaka from the 1950s. Rui’s daughter Hinata in Kyoto in the mid-1960s adores the world of period dramas but finds a place where she can be herself through the English language program on the radio after going a long way around. As Yasuko, Rui, and Hinata listen to English lessons over the radio, it opens the door to their dreams in a story spanning the Showa, Heisei, and Reiwa eras.