Hitomi is an 18-year-old female university student living in Oji, Tokyo. Mari is an 18-year-old shop assistant born and living in Yokohama. Mieko is a 23-year-old office worker in Ginza who lives in Asakusa, Tokyo. The film follows their relationships with their boyfriends.
In 1908, a ruined businessman is forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the largest red-light district in Tokyo. The owners of the brothel have hopes to make her a great new addition which will attract the richest of customers. But after several months of training, she tries to flee Yoshiwara when the time has come for her to take her first customer.