Mom and Grandma need to go to Kochi on urgent business. Dad, Bunji and Fumi are left at home and, with Dad`s "Freedom Declaration", enjoy their freedom to the fullest... Mom and Grandma`s urgent business was a relative`s funeral. The funeral is for the husband of a cousin who Mom hadn`t seen in a long time. Funerals in the country side are lively, as people laugh and cry as they reminisce together... While being taken to the airport by Mom`s brother and his wife, Mom is shocked by the stories about incredible hardships surrounding childbirth from her normally quiet and ladylike sister-in-law. Bunji and Fumi are enjoying their "Freedom", but the loneliness from Mom being gone worsens...