Yoko Shioya

Takao est un écrivain reconnu et primé tandis que Michiko, sa femme, est médecin et travaille dans un hopital renommé de Tokyo où elle travaille énormément. Épuisée, elle finit par faire une crise de nerfs ce qui amène le couple à vouloir changer de vie. Ils décident alors de retrouver le village fermier où Takao a grandi.

A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who perishes. Riding alongside him and surviving unhurt is his second wife, Kumako. It soon comes to light that Kumako’s husband was insured for 300 million yen and she is arrested on suspicion of murdering her husband for the insurance money. The newspapers denounce her as an evil woman, while the public is in no doubt about Kumako’s crime. Ritsuko Sahara is chosen as her defence attorney but the pair clash over almost everything...