快要结婚的一对男女参加派对的时候，意外发现这位男人过去的第三者，派对结束后男女分开过夜。在晚上的横滨展开现代青年轻佻浮薄的爱情故事，又像关于爱情的形而上学的考察。他们最后得到的结论是感动还是嘲笑？

It’s 1940, and the population of Japan is divided over its entry into World War II. Satoko, the wife of a fabric merchant, is devoted to her husband but is beginning to suspect he’s up to something. Soon she allows herself to be drawn into a game in which she enigmatically conceals her intentions.

自从初恋失踪以后，朝子便失去了生活的目标。两年后，她遇到了一个外形与恋人几乎一模一样的男人。她被这种奇妙的相似所吸引，却逐渐感受到这个年轻男人拥有截然不同的性格。

Yuzo and Mitsuki live together in Yuzo's small apartment, their constant companionship tender and indifferent in turn. Then Yuzo receives a call from Satsuki, a documentarian resolved to make a film about a now-distant family tragedy, and the three meet, to search for some way to account for their relationship with one another, the memories they share, and those they've kept to themselves.

技術的な諸々の難点を除けば（これは大学の映研で撮られた8ミリ映画なのだ）、濱口竜介が既に濱口竜介であることが驚異的だ。的確な演出とショット割り。映画と映画内映画の関係を複雑かつ緻密に構成した脚本。しかもここには、若さと仲間との親密さから来る瑞々しさが溢れている。約10年振りに観られる幻のバージョン。

Hamaguchi wrote and directed this film as a graduation project for the students at ENBU Seminar (film and theater school in Tokyo) when he taught there. It is a three-part film: The first part is a documentary-style production of a play; Then the actual full stage production of the play; and the epilogue. Poetry and written words play the central role in the movie.

Revolves around the bond between two women, a Japanese theater director and a French nurse.