仕事で知り合った男性と結婚することになり、田舎へと嫁いできたまひろ。姑・怜子の陰湿な嫁いびりに心が折れそうになるが、連れ子の半造の励ましに救われる。そんなまひろが「上手く家庭に取り入って自分の場所を築こうとする女」に見えて、面白く思わない怜子はまひろを追い出すために、知人を通じて男達を呼び出しまひろを●すように命じる。行為が行われ、弱りきったまひろを責め立てる怜子。そして、偶然その光景を覗いてしまった半造は言いようのない感情を抱いて……。

Mahiro moves to the countryside to marry a man she met through work. Her spirit is almost broken by her mother-in-law Reiko's insidious torment, but she is saved by the encouragement of Reiko's son, Hanzo. Seeing Mahiro as "a woman who is trying to cleverly ingratiate herself in the family and make her place," Reiko is displeased and, in order to drive Mahiro out, summons men through an acquaintance and orders them to **** Mahiro. After the act is carried out, Reiko berates the weakened Mahiro. And Hanzo, who accidentally witnesses the scene, is filled with indescribable emotions…