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Hitomi Shiraki is a carefree, happy housewife in her first year of marriage. Drawn by favorable conditions such as three meals, naps, sex included, and a permanent job with a house included, she even dropped out of the university she had been attending and married Koji, an assistant professor at her school. From the outside, their married life appears happy, but her sex life is full of dissatisfaction. The cause is the presence of her older sister, Yuriko, who is living with them under the condition that she will stay only until marriage. Because she is considerate of Yuriko, her sex with Koji is always incomplete, and Hitomi’s stress is on the verge of exploding.
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Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, Suzu impregnates the simple gestures of everyday life with poetry and beauty. The many hardships, the loss of loved ones, the frequent air raids of the enemy, nothing alters her enthusiasm…