昭和のはじめ。とある田舎の映画館で、無声映画「美式天然」の到着を待つ人々がいた。
その頃、このフィルムの最終巻を届けるはずの少年は、大好きなキネマ女優が主演するこの映画が悲しい結末だと知り、フィルムを砂浜に埋め、失踪してしまう。
時は流れて現代ある街に、夫が死んでから部屋にこもり花の絵を描き続ける母と、母を見守りながらもどこか冷めた感じで日々を過ごしている娘がいた。
そんな二人が暮らす家に、ある日突然祖父が居候を始め、女二人の静かな生活が少しずつ流転しはじめる。
二つの時代祖父は、むかし自分が届けなかった映画を思いながら、残り少ない自分の人生をかみしめていた。
やがて、おじいさんの記憶の中の映画館で、時を越えた上映会がはじまる。
It is a day around 1930.
People are waiting at a cinema in the Japanese countryside for the arrival of the silent film, "Utsukushiki Tennen".
The boy delivering the final reel of the film finds out about the tragic ending of the story in which his favorite leading actress is cast.
He buries the film on the beach and disappears.
Time passes. A woman who is sunk in sorrow due to the loss of her husband stays in her room and paints flowers.
She lives with her daughter who watches after her but does so somewhat coldly.
The distant relationship between the two begins to grow complicated when the father of the mother's husband suddenly comes to live at their home.
Two eras are woven together.
The old man, who was that delivery boy, thinks about the film he buried at the beach and anguishes that someone may still be waiting for it. He sees his life fading away. The cinema that lives on in memory; a film screening that transcends time.
