Efter at have tilbragt 20 år i fængsel slipper den tidligere storsvindler Foley (Samuel L. Jackson) endelig ud og er fast besluttet på ikke at genoptage sin gamle tilværelse. Han møder unge Iris (Ruth Negga), og perspektiverne ser lovende ud, men fortiden er en stædig ledsager.
An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for all.
When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. A remake of Ozu's own silent film The Story of Floating Weeds (1934).
A journalist's wife insists on adopting an abandoned child.
A bachelor's life is interrupted by the appearance of a teenager who claims to be his son.