Musician Sakura gets pregnant at an important time, when her popularity is rising. However, because she had relationships with multiple men, she has no idea who the father of her child is. That's how she ends in "Ochiki" - japanese term for worst time of life.
Tanaka is a young man who works in a scrapyard. He falls for his colleague Yoshiko, but she's trapped in a violent relationship with a small-time gangster.