Summary
A story of a young woman (Hideko Takamine) who served in Japan's forest service in Indochina during World War II, and fell in love with a married co-worker (Masayuki Mori) while there. After the war, she returns to Japan, completely impoverished, and finds her lover comfortably re-established in his family and uninterested in fulfilling the idle promises he made during the war. While Mori is only willing to dally half-heartedly with her, Takamine remains obsessed with him.