The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar network. A laid-off man and his younger sister go up a mountain to see the first sunrise of the year. Meanwhile, Haruo has inherited his family's gas business, but things aren't going well in his new endeavor and he becomes increasingly frustrated.

Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle. But when Lily, a beautiful stripper from out of Hama's past, returns to town, the fuse is lit on a criminal powder keg set to blow the lid off the Yokohama underworld.

浪掷的青春，跑到海边小镇说故事。健看守著旅馆，也看顾一个关系叫他不敢面对的植物人。美香如常在暑假来到小镇，帮忙叔叔打理油站。去年，她的情人是健，今年，她心里却是另一个。柔香来逃避失恋，第二天便与初相识的健睡在床上。三人海边天天见面，让时间无聊打发在海水里。直至哲逃避债主跑来找健，微妙三角关系才有了变化。四个年轻的心，总找不到安放位置。是青春出卖了他们，还是他们都将忠诚全给了自己

《依然年轻的废墟》自幼失去双亲的兄妹飒太（竹原ピストル 饰）和帆波（谷村美月 饰）相依为命。飒太被供职的船厂裁员，除夕之夜，兄妹携手登上山顶守望日出；《抱着猫咪的阿婆》70岁的时婆婆（中里あき 饰）和猫咪格雷相守度日，无论政府如何动员，阿婆也不肯离开充满了回忆的简陋小屋；《黑森林》供职天文馆的中年男子比嘉隆三（小林薫 饰）在妻儿面前没有半点尊严，他希望妻子春代（南果步 饰）能从醉酒欢歌的夜店辞职，却始终欲言又止；《开裂的趾甲》继承了父亲的燃气商店，目黑晴夫（加濑亮 饰）一直不得要领，为此心情烦躁，而他的家中也危机重重；《赤足》电车司机萩谷达一郎意外看见本应在东京的儿子阿博。父子间究竟发生过什么，而让他们身处同一城市却不相见。
本片根据佐藤泰志的同名短篇小说集改编，虚构城市海炭市的原型即作者的家乡函馆。