Noriko Hayami

Kuki is a veteran newspaper reporter who has been shuffled off to a book-development branch and finds escape in an illicit relationship with Rinko. Together they find the passion no longer present in their marriages.

In a fit of despair, Muraki decides to kill himself and a prostitute he has picked up. However, he loses his nerve and doesn't go through with it. Two years later he runs into her again.

Nami, the widow of a disgraced narcotics officer seeks to clear his name by going undercover.

A middle-aged couple has lost their sexual passion for each other.