本片是根据坂口安吾同名小说改编的情色文艺片。描绘从太平洋战争末期到战后,东京两对男女被时代摆布交错的命运。绝望的作家野村与从良的妓女生活在一起,如饥似渴地重复肢体动作。与之相反,从中国战场回来的大平前失去了手臂,因为战争精神后遗症而畏惧跟妻子做爱。但某天看到一个遭男人欺凌过的女人时,他却不由自主兴奋了·..A prostitute, an author and a returning soldier face the immanent despair and nihilism in their war-struck nation. For them, sex has become meaningless and at the same time the only way to feel anything at all. In his first feature film, INOUE explicitly and pitilessly pursues the roles of victims and perpetrators and the question of guilt in Japan.