在川端的字里行间转换出迷人的情色，吉田义弘用新浪潮的锐利镜头，在逆光的冷峻轮廓下，勾勒出苗思与妻子冈田茉莉的爱与欲，幻化成令人恐惧又充满诱惑的迷离。一位已婚妇女为安抚情人而拍下一张裸照，却落入陌生人手中，一段噩梦般的旅程就此展开。安东尼奥尼的魔法幻影在女人、情人和陌生人的暧昧空间中若隐若现，在海角的悬崖和荒野的沙丘上。沉船残骸中的交配和英玛·伯格曼的《镜中之谜》（1960）在空气中闪耀。它突破了日本传统的视角，释放了女性爱恨交织的激情，将川端文学意境的余韵置于列车渐行渐远的落寞场景中。

Eight years into her marriage, Miyako Mizuki (Mariko Okada) looks happy on the outside, but in fact she is not satisfied with her husband, Yuzo (Shinsuke Ashida), who cares about nothing but his career. Miyako has been having an affair with a young interior designer named Kitano (Tamotsu Hayakawa), who in turn has a fiancée named Machie (Keiko Natsu). One night in a hotel, Miyako lets Kitano takes some nude photos of her. On her way back, she is followed by a stranger (Shigeru Tsuyuguchi), and loses her handbag with the film negatives inside while trying to escape. Later at home, Miyako receives a call from the stranger. He uses the negatives to threaten her to follow his instructions and take a train to the north. The stranger is named Ginpei. He was a teacher in a girls’ school, but was expelled because of a scandal with one of his students. As Miyako meets up with Ginpei, she develops a strange attraction towards him