Her husband's death came too soon... Rei, who was in the depths of grief, had no way of knowing that the gears of her life were starting to go haywire. On the day of the funeral, Rei, who still cannot accept the death of her husband, clings to her mother-in-law Marina's chest as she resolutely conducts the funeral, and collapses. As Marina holds Rei close, in her eyes dwells the one-sided love she never showed for her son's daughter-in-law while he was alive. As the priest's sutras echo through the house, the curtains begin on the eternal drama of the women's funeral training...