Fumiko Enchi

Following the death of her son, Mieko Toganō takes an increasing interest in the personal affairs of her widowed daughter-in-law, Yasuko. Devastated by her loss, she skillfully manipulates the relationships between Yasuko and the two men who are in love with her, encouraging a dalliance that will have terrible …

An unnerving portrait of women caught in a web of shifting relationships within an upper-class family in the years following the Meiji Restoration.