In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and walked out on her years earlier.

• Shochiku
• Sumiko Kurishima
• Tatsuo Saitō
• Teruko Kojima
• Jun Arai
• Mitsuko Yoshikawa
• Takeshi Sakamoto
• Kenji Oyama
• Shigeru Ogura