After finishing the forty-ninth-day memorial service and seeing off the mourners, the widow Shinako struggles to move on from her husband's untimely death. As she laments the relentless passage of time, he arrives—the estranged brother-in-law, Kazuya. 'With my brother gone... it feels refreshing,' Kazuya declares in front of the Buddhist altar. He then proceeds to ravage Shinako, who is consumed by grief before her husband's portrait.
