Kumiko Fujiyoshi

Hako was sentenced to 7 years in prison on a robbery charge for the host she loved. Ayaka killed her husband to protect their son from domestic violence. These two women became acquainted in prison and forged strong bonds. After they are released from prison, they stay together and begin new lives in the old district of Yanaka in Tokyo while carrying pasts that no one must not know.

The omnibus movie by Shindo Kaneto is separated into three parts, each one of which follows a different life problem of the Japanese citizen and their way of facing the world. The first story consists of a high school student who plays hooky and befriends a middle-aged man. The second story deals with an elderly couple who wants their daughter to have a better life. The last story is about an eleven-year-old who's abandoned by his mother and he has to take care of his two younger siblings.