Childhood friends Watanabe and Naoko are reunited at a chance meeting in Tokyo in 1969. Their friendship is rekindled, but both remain haunted by a tragedy from the past. As their relationship develops, so memories come flooding back. Tran Anh Hung's adaptation of Haruki Murakami's breakthrough novel, is a passionate story of nostalgia, loss and awakening sexuality, and imbued with the romantic melancholy of the Beatles song that gives it its title.