Taki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a travelling carnival troupe. She falls in love with an orphaned carriage driver Kinya Murakoshi, and pledges to put him through law school in Tokyo. She always encloses money in her letters to him, until one hard winter there is no work to be found.
A story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man.
A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.
