Summer has arrived in the Japanese countryside. Hiroo, a mischievous 10-year-old boy, is playing with his mother when an army jeep pulls up in a cloud of dust. An officer and his sidekick emerge. They are there to enlist the child and turn him into a soldier in the service of the Emperor. Against all odds, Hiroo refuses and runs away. The two soldiers give chase, but Hiroo's mother intervenes, risking her life.

Capra is an insurance salesman. One day, after an attack, he meets an unknown woman who came to his rescue. He picks her up hitchhiking and is convinced that this encounter was meant to be. He decides to follow her; even if he has to look death in the eyes to do so... From very close by...