A critique of the Japanese family, seen here as militaristic, absurdly incestuous and patriarchal. Nihilistic destruction by the young ones seems to be the only way out. This should be seen as Wakamatsu’s answer to Nagisa Oshima’s The Ceremony, made in the same year.
The story of three boys who escape from prison, but their dream of freedom turns out to be nothing more than a dream. One is killed, one dies of an illness, and the remaining boy knocks on the prison door, begging to be let out...