Noriko Takada

Ryoko's husband forges art for a living and beats her for trying to work outside the conjugal home. Her young son mimics her husband's behavior and her mother-in-law sanity slowly disintegrates as she treks to the cemetery everyday.

The monologues of a sister who was abandoned by her mother and a mother who abandoned her daughter overlap with the unrelated scenes and conversations of young women in their daily lives. Various women appear in the film, including a woman with a birthmark, sisters in mourning clothes, women taking nude photos in their rooms, and a mother and daughter.