The backstage romances of an egotistical singer and his under-valued manager, a lovelorn bandman and a nude dancer.
Harada Kai, the Date clan's Chamberlain attempts to take power from the lord himself.
A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a classical theatre student in the hope that the latter will marry Senya..