A hard working family refuses to give in to poverty so the God of Poverty haunting them is to be fired. But they want him to stay. A strange child shouts, "Poor! Trip!" at a poor elderly couple on new years. A poor man gives a priest statue a straw hat, and is given blessings in return.
If we had rice balls, we could 
celebrate the new year.
Si tuviéramos un pedazo de mochi,
Si tuviéramos un pedazo de mochi,
Se tivéssemos bolinhos de arroz, 
poderíamos celebrar o ano novo.