In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years earlier.
A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.
Based on a semi-autobiographical story by Ogai Mori, about a Japanese medical student who goes to Berlin to study in the 1880s and falls in love with a German ballet dancer.
