In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries about her single marital status at the advanced age of 28. 40-year-old business associate Takako proposes, Noriko's family press her into accepting, but when her widowed childhood friend Kenkichi returns to the neighborhood, she finds her heart leading in another direction.

Setsuko Hara
as Noriko Mamiya

Chishū Ryū
as Koichi Mamiya

Chikage Awashima
as Aya Tamura

Kuniko Miyake
as Fumiko Mamiya

Ichirō Sugai
as Shukichi Mamiya

Chieko Higashiyama
as Shige Mamiya

Haruko Sugimura
as Tami Yabe

Kuniko Igawa
as Takako

Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
as Kenkichi Yabe

Shūji Sano
as Sotaro Satake