Chieko Murata

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.

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

Koen is a geisha who has intimate relationships with several men at once. One of them, the mature Tsutsui, proposes to set a step to a change of exclusivity.