Haruko Amano left the small northern seaside town of Sodegahama 24 years ago and has not returned since, but when her childhood friend Daikichi emails her with news that her mother has collapsed, she rushes back with her 16-year-old daughter Aki in tow. It was all a ruse, however: Haruko's mother Natsu is fine. Sodegahama depends on the ama, the women who dive for sea urchins and shellfish, as a tourist attraction, but with all the ama over 50, Daikichi was hoping to convince Haruko to start diving. Haruko refuses, but Aki, who was a shy and gloomy girl in Tokyo, suddenly brightens up and declares she wants to be an ama. Despite her father's pleaas, she decides not to return to Tokyo, but instead enroll at the local high school, where she makes friends with Yui, who wants to become an idol. Success as an ama does not come easily: Aki somehow cannot catch a sea urchin on her own. Yui wins a contest to become the symbol character of the Kitasanriku Railroad, and when Yui's older brother Hiroshi takes a job at the local tourism bureau and uploads videos of his sister on the town website, train otaku begin flooding the town. Hiroshi, however, has a secret liking for Aki, and his videos of her, especially after she catches her first sea urchin, make her as big a sensation as Yui.

OST Amachan

Shiosai no Memory

Amachan Uta no Album