The opening scene of the film is disconcerting, not only because Ikuyo says goodbye to her baby and, when noticed by the monk at the shrine, is invited to come in. They begin to be attracted to each other, talking about the mercy of Buddha and praying ‘Namu amida butsu’ until they fornicate there, mother and monk, in the middle of a strange scene that seems comical but is rather surreal, given that outside the newborn baby lies in a planter, practically abandoned, and since the disoriented mother entered the temple, the monk Doetsu has warned her that the Buddha statue outside is fake. Anyway, 17 years pass and the girl is now a teenager, Etsuko, of marriageable age, and we see her flirting and hitting a young man with an erection lying in the field, while the Buddhist monk continues his formal ‘sermons’ that are more laughable than sexually arousing: he caresses women and recites Kannon and other prayers with erect nipples and other antics.

But one day, while riding his bike in the village, he runs into Ikuyo, the mother. Without expressing any regrets but with tender eyes, she asks him if he is married and offers to take him to the temple or her house to clean and prepare meals a couple of times a week so he can see her daughter, who, incidentally, treats her a little badly when she sees her for the first time. And when she sees her for the second and subsequent times, she also treats her badly and even smears mud on the clothes that the strange woman has just washed at her father’s house, without suspecting that she is her mother.

The young girl loves her father very much, but she falls in love with a somewhat puppet-like boy who gazes at the mountain horizon and draws a voluptuous woman on canvas. An artist? Hahaha, that’s what they call them. When he meets Etsuko, he says, exaggeratedly stunned, ‘Your beauty and my artistic impulse need no drawings or words.’ Wow, not very original for a rogue, and not very creative for an artist. So Etsuko is about to run away from home when her mother asks the monk to marry her. When they realise she has run away, they rush off on their bikes to catch up with her because she is about to marry her mother’s brother, i.e. her uncle. Faced with such an aberration, they hurry back and there is a happy ending. A rather comical and somewhat dramatic film. It is not pinku eiga, nor is it porno roman – a pornographic novel – because the few sexual scenes are not explicit, unless you count nipples.