White collar worker Yamashita discovers that his wife has a lover when he is off seeing with her , unexpectedly returns home and kills her. After eight years in prison, he returns to dwell in a little villagethat opens a barbershop (he was trained as a barber in prison) and speaks almost to no-one except for your eel he"befriended" in prison. He finds the body of Keiko, who reminds him and attempted suicide one day. She starts to work at his shopbut he doesn't let her become near him.