After the war, the young and penniless Yukiko (Hideko Takamine) returns to Japan, which is bleak and desolate, and immediately sets about to find Kenkichi (Masayuki Mori), with whom she had an affair in Japanese-occupied Vietnam. When they meet in Tokyo there is no more talk of living together, as he had promised. The city in ruins becomes the location of a destructive love story: the more Kenchichi – an irresponsible womanizer – withdraws, the more obsessively Yukiko clings on to her love. These two uprooted figures meet in dreary dwellings and cheap eateries, taking long walks through the city’s streets and alleys, drifting until they embark upon a final journey.
(Arsenal Kino)