In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained relationship stemming from an unknown incident in their past.
Three short tales from stories by Ichiyo Higuchi. In one, a young woman is degraded by her family after an arranged marriage. Another deals with the troubles heaped upon a young servant by her family and the wealthy people who employ her. The final story tells of a prostitute and her hopes of finding a new, respectable life.
Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a man just back from the war front visits the doctor with a medical emergency, followed by a woman who claims to have been molested. Then a yakuza arrives to ask the doctor to cut his finger off...
La hija mayor de los Takamatsu, Atsuko, viuda, vuelve a la casa paterna porque no congenia con su familia política. Por su parte, la hija menor, Yukiko, está enamorada de un profesor mayor que ella y no duda en salir de excursión con él pese al disgusto de su padre. Todo ello, unido a que Yukiko y Atusko se llevan bastante mal, va a sacudir los cimientos de la familia Takamatsu.
