The stories revolve around vignettes on diners in a small restaurant that opens from 0-7am and has a relatively simple recipe with just a few dishes. The first story is about a woman named Tamako, who is the mistress of a real estate developer, who suddenly dies without leaving her a single inheritance. She goes to a small store to drink and relieve her boredom, complaining about her lack of means. The owner of the small store, a middle-aged man in his fifties, doesn't say a word, but just cooks the customers' favorite food according to their preferences and gives it to her. At this point, she immediately takes up with another loser diner, and while everyone else congratulates them, the owner still doesn't say a word. But then it turns out that it was the realtor's wife who tampered with the will, and the realtor had left her a share of the estate, and she immediately kicks the loser guy's ass, and it's decisive. She knew what she wanted and had to choose between the two. At this point, she came to eat at the store and people were talking about her, she couldn't stay at the store, then she said to herself and the owner, "Boss you do understand her don't you. The boss still didn't say a word, he seemed to see through everything.
The second story is about Michiru, a girl from the countryside, who was tricked into going to Tokyo, she had no place to eat or stay, and went to the boss's store to have a bully meal. Later she finds the boss and apologizes and tries to use her labor against the meal money, the store didn't need anyone, the boss was enough on his own, but it just so happened that the boss had a cramp in his hand and couldn't do anything. The boss takes her in and lets her help out at the store and pays her for her work. Later, when the boss's hand gets better and there's no way he can take him in, it just so happens that a woman boss who likes the boss lets Mi-chi stay and work for her, and the woman boss sees that it's not a good idea for a young girl to be around a man he likes after all.
The third story is about a woman named Akemi, who uses her vacation as a volunteer to visit the people affected by the disaster, and one of them is a middle-aged man, Kenzo, who lost his wife in the disaster, and because of Akemi's presence, Kenzo feels that he is in love with her, and he goes out of his way to come to Kyungdong to look for her, but Akemi doesn't like her at all, and he's dead set against it. When he comes to eat at his boss's store, Akemi reveals that she was dumped because she had an inappropriate relationship with her boss at work, so she goes on vacation to volunteer to comfort and encourage people who are suffering, seeking inner redemption. In the end, Kenzo is also figuring it out, and he lets himself off the hook to spare Akemi.
The three stories are in fact not much shocking, but it is such a small story, but it is the real life. In this world, not everyone can achieve greatness, most, should be the vast majority of people are ordinary life, there is no perfect and complete, we have to do is quietly accept.
The boss in the movie, he is like a wise man, he understands everyone's heart and gives different comfort. To Tamako as a mistress, she did not condemn or morally abduct her like others, he can understand. To Michiru's acceptance and help, to Akemi's solace, he silently comforts them with food, so that everyone relaxes with him, each willing to talk to him about the various aspects of life.
This is a very heartwarming movie, watching it gives people inner peace and warmth. Life has all kinds of ups and downs and is not easy, but this is life, we have to learn to relieve ourselves, do not in all kinds of swamps can not pull themselves out.
PS:
Today, I switched with a colleague on duty, and the weather is sunny, but the epidemic does not seem to have eased, so we should stay at home quietly and not go out, right? I was wondering how I was going to get back to my hometown in the afternoon, none of the shuttles, they're all out of service, and that's a real problem~