Takeshi Sakamoto and his two boy are on the tramp while he searches for a job. Happily, he runs into old acquaintance Chôko Iida, who puts up at her cheap inn and finds him a job. He runs into Yoshiko Okada and her daughter, also looking for a job. He gets Miss Iida to put her on the cuff, and things are looking up. But there is no straight path to happiness, nor goodness.
Yasujiro Ozu's last silent movie is.... well, you can say it sums up everything he had done in movies up to that point, with parents taking care of children as best they can in an unforgiving environment, and characters in complicated relationships. He's still editing his stuff with a lot of cuts, and enjoying some interesting camera angles, but the most interesting shots turn out to be of Sakamoto thinking.
Ozu would move into sound pictures, but only finished three before he was drafted into the Army. He didn't return to regular film making until 1947, and it was with a much more mature viewpoint, quickly evolving into the Ozu who is revered.