Michinori Yoshida

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.

While under sedation in a dentist's office, a young art student has sex fantasies about naked women, vampires and a beautiful patient he saw in the office.

Twenty years have passed since the end of the war, and it seems as though no scars of war remain anywhere. This unique human drama explores the love story between a man trapped in the dark atmosphere of war and a woman burdened by fate, wandering through a desperate youth.