Departures The young man is Daigo KOBAYASHI, who was a cellist in an orchestra which had just been dissolved. Suddenly thrown out onto the streets without a job and no hope for life, Daigo decides to move back to his old hometown, with his wife. However, his life is revived by the job of “encoffining/casketing.” The job is despised by his wife and the people around him, but through the “Deaths” that he encounters, he starts to finally find what “Life” was all about.