Yukiko y Tomioka fueron amantes durante la II Guerra Mundial, que pasaron en el sudeste asiático. Terminado el conflicto, Yukiko vuelve a Tokio en busca de Tomioka, al que cree divorciado, pero él sigue casado. A partir de ese momento su relación alterna separaciones y reencuentros, mientras otros hombres y mujeres pasan por sus vidas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirited: she neither cooks not cleans particularly well and is generally disagreeable. In turn, he alternately ignores her and treats her as a servant. Neither is particularly happy, not helped by their unsatisfactory lodgers. The husband is easily seduced by an ex-colleague, a widow with a small child who needs some security, and considers leaving his wife.
