During pre-shoot preparations at a hotel, Mariko Itsuki discovers something the director was hiding. Despite the director's pleas to keep it secret, Mariko betrays him by revealing it to the crew and cast. Enraged, the director takes an increasingly hostile and abusive attitude toward the actress. She repeatedly begs for forgiveness, but her apologies fall on deaf ears. Finally pushed to her limit, Mariko snaps in a shocking turn of events.