Driven by homesickness, a writer, decides to travel to Kyoto to hear the temple bells ring in the New Year. But he also wants to see Otoko, a former lover whom he had humiliated. Still beautiful, Otoko, now a painter, lives with her protege Keiko, an amoral, sensual and passionate young woman in her early twenties. And what begins as a romantic reunion between the mature Oki and the discreet Otoko will turn. By the will of Keiko, determined to avenge her mentor, in a cruel drama of love and destruction.
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