A young Tokyoite doctor accepts a post on a remote island south of Okinawa. When a highly contagious fatal disease breaks out he has to choose between saving himself or saving others. A hormoneridden teenage youth left alone with his young stepmother following his fathers death is consumed with jealousy as her affections turn to another man. A journalist in search of answers travels from the metropolis to a bleak shore on the Japan Sea and eventually the furthest extreme of icebound Hokkaido a