At 1 o'clock, Yasuko spent the last night with Kenji who had been drafted into war, swallowing her sorrow as she sent him off. Five years later, after the end of the war, Yasuko was married to a man several years older than herself. One day, Kenji, who was supposed to have died in battle, returned to Yasuko. 2 After losing her husband in the war, Shizu took care of her younger sister Aya while enduring days where even food was scarce. One day, a farmer who had feelings for Shizu attacked her while she was gathering wild vegetables.
