A farmhouse built in Japan two and a half centuries ago becomes the thread connecting several lives across decades. The film follows journalist John Roderick and architect Yoshihiro Takishita, who rescued the timber-framed minka from demolition in the 1960s, dismantled it board by board, and rebuilt it in the hills outside Kamakura. Interviews and archival photographs trace how the house passed from the farming family who first lived in it to Roderick, who spent the rest of his life there, and eventually to a new owner who continues to maintain its thick thatched roof and hand-joined beams. Craftsmen explain the building techniques that let a minka be taken apart and reassembled without nails, and the film treats the structure itself as a kind of witness, holding the memory of everyone who has cooked, slept, and grown old inside it. The pace is unhurried, more meditation than history lesson, built around the idea that a house can outlast every person who ever called it home.