Set at the end of World War II and after Japan's defeat, it is a melodrama about a man and a woman at the mercy of war. Wataru is entrusted by his best friend who has gone off to war with his sister Reiko to marry her, but he is not ready to abandon his love for Kumiko, a nurse at his mother's hospital.
Ryō Ikebe
Yōko Sugi
Takashi Shimura
Setsuko Wakayama
Yoshio Tsuchiya
