秋子自小因病失聪，对生命感到无奈。战祸发生后，与家人避至新泻县居住。秋子的丈夫在战乱中死去，被丈夫的家人迫回娘家。一次旧校生聚会中，认识了片山道夫，两人互相倾慕相恋，后来结了婚。纵使生活艰苦，两人互相持，齐心面对，但不幸的事却不断发生。

A collaborative, newsreel-style portrait of Tokyo in 1957–58, blending photography, animation, and historical imagery to capture the city’s labor, rituals, and nightlife at the moment it became the world’s largest metropolis.