Chiyoko Fumiya

A Japanese veteran, driven partially mad from the war, travels to the snowy island of Hokkaido where he soon enters a love triangle with his best friend and a disgraced woman.

A schoolteacher struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, having neither money nor future prospects.

A man returns from World War II to find his desperate wife had resorted to one night of prostitution to pay for their son's hospital bills.