What do part-time philosophy professors do other than loaf about, philosophize part-time, be dolts, stay in a spare room in the home of the brother and an annoyed sister-in-law? How fortuitous then that nephew Yukio has a school report to write on a particular family member. In the meanwhile, in order to get the man out of the house the mission is to find him a woman and coincidentally a Japanese-American woman is around.