故事发生在1939年的巴黎。女作家伊琳娜（奥黛丽·英格兰饰）正在与著名作家劳伦斯（科斯塔斯·曼德勒饰）进行一场激烈的斗争。在这激烈的爱情时刻，伊琳娜震惊地发现劳伦斯背着她到处走，傲慢的伊琳娜果断地选择离开。
An affluent medical professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Setsuko is a liberated woman who does what she wants, including smoking, even though she is a minor. On Saturday, the professor does not feel like going to his weekend golf game, but his wife packs him off anyway. So he leaves his bag at the apartment of his student Okada, and goes to a bar with a friend. Setsuko traces him there, and insists that he take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada to take her home, while he sleeps at Okada's. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home, and also of her husband when she discovers that he did not go golfing.
質樸溫和的小鎮景色、異地情緣；喝了一半的酒，没說完的話，没能再見的人；兩段故事以不同的人物、景色交織幻化成一段美麗記憶；本片宛如奈良版《愛在黎明破曉時》。
