Whitecollar worker Yamashita realizes his wife has a lover when he is off, visiting her , unexpectedly returns home and kills her. After eight years in prison, he soon proceeds to dwell in a little village, opens a barber shop (he was trained as a barber in prison) and talks nearly to nobody except for your eel he"befriended" in prison. He sees that out the unconscious body of Keiko, who attempted suicide and reminds him. She starts to work at his own shop, but he doesn't let her become near him.