Dir.: Kei Kumai; Script: Kei Kumai D'après/Based on: �The Woman I Abandoned� De/By: Shusaku Endo; Phot.: Masao Tochizawa; Ed.: Osamu Inoue; Mus.: Teizo Matsumura; Cast: Miki Sakai, Atsuro Watabe, Kyoko Kishida, Keiju Kobayashi, Joe Shishido, Masumi Okada, Chieko Matsubara, Miki Sanjoe, Tsunehiko Kamijoe, Ken Nishida; Prod. & Sales: Tomozo Yamaguchi, Nikkatsu Corporation, 28-12, Hongo 3-chome, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo 113 (Japon), tél.: 81-3-5689-1019, fax: 81-3-5689-1044.

Sweet Mitsu has a crush on Yoshioka, a young salesman from Okinawa who offers to bring her back to Tokyo. En route, Yoshioka invites her to dinner, takes her out to see a movie and manages to bring her to a bar for a drink. With the help of some lies he even gets her to go with him into a hotel. But Yoshioka isn't ready to accept her love. As a child he was abandoned by his mother and now he doesn't really trust women. He sneaks away without leaving any address. A month later they meet again. Yoshioka is now working in a real estate brokerage and Mitsu is a hostess in a bar in Tokyo's Ginza district. Mitsu harbours no ill will towards Yoshioka. She is just happy to have found him again. Yoshioka eventually gets over his apprehensions and decides to live with Mitsu. One day he finds a red spot on Mitsu's arm. Mitsu is examined and sent to a sanatorium. Isolated from the rest of the world, Mitsu slowly begins to know the other patients and to love them. She becomes a source of kindness and compassion, and through the strength of her love she transforms this place of suffering and hopelessness and provides a beacon of light for everyone around her.