The other 3 parents are angry with the nurse but Ryota is more interested in getting his real son back. It turns out that he and his brother were raised lovingly by his step-mom.Īt the court proceedings the hospital nurse confesses to swapping the babies in some confused reaction to her raising her husbands children from a previous marriage. RYota's parents had separated and he had attempted to run away from his father who has custody and go back to his mother but his father brought him back. Ryota has a difficult relationship with his own father and his dad advises him that blood is important in families and horse breeding and is adamant that Ryota get his true son back. MIdori's mother is also troubled by the thought of exchanging the boys knowing how attached her daughter is to the boy.
The two mothers are not certain and form a bond and alliance knowing that Ryota is the most forceful of the group. The lawyers and advisors all agree that the families should exchange the boys back to their real families. When the families meet the two boys are very dissimilar, Keita is smaller and more reserved and Ryosei is larger and outgoing. The two families are in very different economic situations and the father Yudai seems very interested in the potential financial settlement from the hospital. MIdori had problems during birth and can have no more children. The two families are brought together and the other couple are small business people, Yudai and Yukara, with a repair shop they live at and two other younger children.
The mix-up was discovered when one of the other boys was tested prior to entering school and it was revealed he was not related to his parents. The hospital and their lawyers arrange for genetic testing of the children to establish parentage. Ryota also implies that as the child's mother she should have recognized that the baby wasn't hers. MIdori is also held responsible for her choice of the hospital where the mix-up occurred. MIdori had chosen to go to a country hospital near where she grew up so she would be close to her family when giving birth as she knew her workaholic husband would not be much use. Ryota is very competitive and struggles that his son is not and he creates hard feelings with his wife when he learns Keita is not his son and blurts out that that explains ii to his wife. the father, Ryota, is a hard working executive who spends very little time with his family and the job of raising their son is left to his stay-at-home wife Midori. A young couple with a six year old son are advised that there was a mix-up at the hospital and their son Keita is not their biological child.The synopsis below may give away important plot points.
Ryota is forced to make a life-changing decision, to choose between 'nature' and 'nurture.' Seeing Midori's devotion to Keita even after learning his origin, and communicating with the rough yet caring family that has raised his natural son for the last six years, Ryota also starts to question himself: has he really been a 'father' all these years. Their 6-year-old son, Keita, is not 'their' son - the hospital gave them the wrong baby. Then one day, he and his wife, Midori, get an unexpected phone call from the hospital. Ryota has earned everything he has by his hard work, and believes nothing can stop him from pursuing his perfect life as a winner. Would you choose your natural son, or the son you believed was yours after spending 6 years together? Kore-eda Hirokazu, the globally acclaimed director of "Nobody Knows", "Still Walking" and "I Wish", returns to the big screen with another family - a family thrown into torment after a phone call from the hospital where the son was born. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another boy after birth, he faces the difficult decision to choose his true son or the boy he and his wife have raised as their own. Ryota is a successful workaholic businessman.
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