When Mr Asai‘s wife dies of a sudden heart attack, while he is away on a business trip, he is numbed by grief. As the weeks pass, he begins to wonder what she, so quiet and introverted, was doing on a residential street in another district. Asai‘s wonderings turn to obsession as he tries to discover if his wife had a secret life he knew nothing about. Beautifully written and crafted around the expectations of society‘s in 1970s Japan.