Tadashi Date

A surgeon gets syphilis from a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. The doctor's life is destroyed, but unlike the patient, he doesn't destroy others along with him.

Poor, pathetic mother Ose has four children, three daughters and a son, by four different men.

After years at a Catholic orphanage, a young girl's life takes an unexpected turn when her long-absent father suddenly appears to reclaim her.