Plot

Summer 1952. In Higashi-Nakano, Tokyo, there was a rundown apartment building known as "Higashinakano House" that was facing eviction in the fall. Women who were scarred by the war lived here. One day, a former geisha, Hatsue, attempted suicide by taking sleeping pills. Only, a US soldier who lived in the next room, known as Me, said with a sigh that it was all a farce. Nobuko, a waitress at a restaurant, brought her son Kenichi from her ex-husband.