在这部与赴死妻子的旅路剧情片中,1999年12月、夫婦でワゴン車に乗って旅をしている最中に末期がんだった妻が車内で亡くなり、保護者遺棄致死事件として報道された実話を、三浦友和と石田ゆり子主演で映画化。当事者の夫・清水久典さんによる同名手記をもとに、死と向き合いながら9カ月間にわたって旅を続けた夫婦の深い愛を描きだす。三億円強奪事件を題材にした映画「初恋」の塙幸成監督がメガホンをとる。
A businessman who owns his own business becomes the guarantor for a friend who is borrowing money from a lender. Sadly, the friend disappears leaving the man on the hook for the loan. This comes at a time when his own business is failing. When it rains it pours and as he concentrates on his problems and lack of funds, he finds out that his wife has contracted cancer. Despite immediate surgery the doctor's prognosis of the disease is negative. She will not live long. They begin to travel together by car and are on the road for nine months. Upon her death the police arrest and jail the widow believing their travel was negligent and accelerated the woman's death. He is sent to jail. Being imprisoned for over a year gives him time to remember, reminisce and ponder their travels and time on the road.
