Ayako Kanô

Having come to Tokyo to rely on her older sister and her husband, Mariko makes a living by working part-time at a classic movie theater. She has had feelings for her brother-in-law Kenji since high school. Even though she knows that he is her sister Noriko's boyfriend, she dreams that one day he will realize her love and their love will be reciprocated. In a corner of the projection room, Mariko dozes off, listening to the sounds of the machinery...

Asami returns home for the third anniversary of her mother's death. Her father, Shinji, said he had rented an apartment near their old house and was living in a neatly organized room. After the memorial service, Asami receives a letter from her mother's best friend, Taeko, which her mother had left behind, and learned that she and Shinji were not related by blood.

Reiko, a neat and intelligent married woman, runs an English conversation school for middle-aged and elderly people. One day, one of the students, Shindo, spots Reiko in town and gives her a ride home, but discovers a large amount of rope in the luggage she left behind...

Princess Margherita of the Kingdom of Nabaria finds a Japanese ladies' comic washed up on the shore. She is excited by the passionate acts of sex and love between a man and a woman she has never seen before. While praying in the church, the statue of Mary tells her that "the one she loves is in Japan," and the princess becomes an apprentice to a master of ladies' comics, but...