In 1838 in the island of Hachijojima, Kisaburo, a Japanese exile, struggles to survive. Toyogiku, a former courtesan who has spent most of her life on the island, sells her body for food and clothes along with her hopeless effort to bribe officials to get her a pardon. She falls in love with the stoic Kisaburo. However, Kisaburo's goal is to escape from there…