Utsukushisa to kanashimi to 1965 Long before the events of the movie Oki, who was approaching middle age, had a relation to 16 year old Otoko She got pregnant, but the child was stillborn Their relation stopped at the same time Much later Oki had become a famous writer, not least because of a novel about this love story Otoko had become a famous painter But she had never overcome the double early trauma and had become a Lesbian Her favourite student and beloved one was the beautiful Keiko 24 years after the early love Oki goes from Tokyo to Kyoto to meet Otoko The meeting is polite with secret emotional shadows Keiko makes a plan She intends to seduce Oki, become pregnant, bear Okis child and give it to Otoko She hopes that Otoko may thereby get rid of her trauma But she also wants to take her revenge on the man who had harmed her beloved Secretly she gets acquainted with Okis son, invites him to Kyoto and seduces him Then she calls his parents and tells that he had promised to marry her Horrified they take the first plane to Kyoto Meanwhile, she takes the son on boating, arranges an accident, and drowns him It is close that she herself would also die