Goro comes back to the town that made him a baseball player, not just to remember it but to stand in the exact spot where he almost quit. The movie doesn't sentimentalize the return, it asks what you owe the place that saved you. A man who conquered America finding out that the real victory was smaller, quieter, and happened when he was ten years old.

Goro makes a short trip back to Japan after a successful run in American baseball. He is bound for Fukuoka, where he played the game as a fifth grader. He had moved there as a new arrival after leaving Mifune and his teammates on the Dolphins behind, and that period became a turning point in his life. The first feature film adapted from Takuya Mitsuda's Major manga, a sports story about a young pitcher who hopes to follow his father into the major leagues, it looks back at Goro's youth and fills in what happened between the first and second seasons of the TV series.