In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained relationship stemming from an unknown incident in their past.
Nobuchi
Shizu, Nobuchi's wife
Kaji
Hioki Jiro
Hioki's mother
Shizu's mother
Hioki's father
Hioki's elder brother
Employment agent
Kume, the maid
Travelling monk
Nobuchi's uncle
Kaji's father
Doctor
Undertaker
Lady of the lodgings
