A university student Hitomi falls in love with a middle aged man Okawa, who was the lover of her deceased mother Hitomis feelings shift back and forth as she is not sure whether it is true love or just a realizatio
The fairy tale follows a young man named Gusuko in the Tohoku forests of northeastern Japan in the 1920s After an onslaught of droughts and natural disasters, Gusuko is forced to leave his home and search for a bet
Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mothers grief from beyond the grave