A stage actor, Iefuku (around 60 years old), knew that his wife, who was also an actress, had regular trysts with a male actor in the same play, but he pretended not to know and acted like a loving couple in front of the world. After his wife died, he hired a female driver, Watari. As they got along, he gradually began to communicate his inner world with Watari, asking whether his deceased wife had to maintain a relationship with "that man".