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The lead, Dr. Sadami Shiratori worked in the operating room at a famous Tokyo hospital was around death on a daily basis. His own father, Teizo Shiratori is also a doctor, called Grandfather as he raised the estranged children of his wayward son, he practiced medicine in a small town on Hokkaido, Japan’s most northern island. His practice was limited only to terminal patients…in their own homes. He cared for them and helped both them and their families prepare for the ‘final journey’.

Can a surgeon find peace in the isolation of Hokkaido after a career spent battling death in Tokyo's frantic operating rooms? This quiet drama pits a doctor's professional exhaustion against the complex legacy of the father who raised him.