Widow Kimika mourns the sudden death of her husband when a man named Kitagawa appears, claiming to have had business ties with him. He reveals, "You see, I lent your late husband two million yen..." and uses the debt as leverage to blackmail and violently rape her. Despite Kimika's fierce inner resistance, she is crushed by her own helplessness. Burdened by the ugly truth of her husband's debt and her violated body, she remains dazed and broken, clinging only to the presence of her late husband's cousin, Katsunori.