주인공 ‘하루카’(아스카 린)는 어린 시절 자신을 받아준 도예가 ‘토키코’(야마구치 카오리)를 스승으로 모시며 그녀의 공방에서 함께 살아간다. ‘토키코’는 주변 남성들과 자유롭게 관계를 맺고, ‘하루카’에게도 성적인 요구를 하며 자신의 욕망을 채우지만, ‘하루카’는 그런 그녀를 진심으로 사랑한다. 어느 날, 공방에 젊은 남성 ‘사토루’(마치 쇼우마)가 새로운 조수로 들어오게 되고, 그로 인해 ‘하루카’는 점차 스승의 비틀린 욕망을 깨닫기 시작한다. 한편, 이들을 지켜보던 ‘토키코’는 ‘하루카’에게 충격적인 명령을 내리게 되는데…
Kenichi Shibuya is a 50-year-old salaryman who divorced a few years back. Since the divorce, his relationship with his daughter has become awkward. One day, Kenichi Shibuya and his boss Yumi Ayase are struck by lightning and die. They go to the afterlife. There in the afterlife they hear of a legendary soup. If someone drinks the legendary soup, that person is reborn, but the reborn person has no memories of their prior life. Kenichi Shibuya then searches for the secrets in the legendary soup, hoping to be reborn, but not forget his daughter.
The year is Seitoku 2 (1712), and Japan has a new ruler. But Ietsugu, the 7th Tokugawa shogun, is only four years old. The power vacuum this creates has Edo Castle roiling in political intrigue and personal positioning of all kinds.
