During the day, Kiyoko works as a guide accompanying bus tours through Tokyo’s upmarket shopping and entertainment Ginza district. In the evening, she returns to the cramped dwellings where she lives with her mother. She is also exposed to one her three half-siblings, who - with an eye on her own financial gain - wants to set her up with a rich baker. The life insurance policy that her other half-sister receives after her husband's death also sets off the covetous family members. Disgusted by her relatives’ selfishness on the one hand and inability to cope with life on the other, Kiyoko moves out. But family bonds are often close and contradictory in Japan.
(Arsenal Kino)