The story depicts how an intelligent, beautiful, and chaste female teacher becomes a woman who writhes in lust after being humiliated by the lecherous vice principal and students.
A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
Kyôko, a traumatized young Japanese girl, finds herself struggling with her self-confidence in her adult life. Growing up in a family without her mother and her sister, she constantly questions the rationale of sex and the notion of liberty in modern Japanese society.
Davina, hayal gücü kuvvetli ve inatçı bir genç kızdır ve sık sık kendini güzel ama karanlık bir hayal dünyasına kaptırır. Engelli annesinin tek bakıcısıdır. Daha büyük bir çocukla fırtınalı bir aşka kapılır ve onunla kaçar, ancak kısa süre sonra çocuğun değişken ve sert yanını görmeye başlar.