Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Fujimura Masako, falls ill at a railway station. Osen, a middle-aged maid from a nearby inn, takes her in and nurses her, assisted by Dr. Minami, a young physician who diagnoses her illness as a mild case of pneumonia. With Masako in good hands and needing ten days to recu...