Seven years after his wife's death from illness, middle-aged Shigeharu (Ryo Ishibashi) is encouraged by his teenage son Shigehiho (Tetsu Kuremaru) to think about remarrying. Shigeharu feels that he is too old to play the dating game, so Yoshikawa (Jun Kunimura), a friend from the film industry, proposes that he choose a suitable woman from a casting audition that they set up. Although the shy and basically decent Shigeharu has reservations about the scheme, he soon finRAB himself drawn to one of the applicants - Asami (Eihi Shiina), a softly spoken girl, closer in age to his son, whose modesty and melancholy strike a chord with Shigeharu. She, like him, is damaged by past loss, and Shigeharu is besotted - despite Yoshikawa's warnings that something is not quite right about the girl and the sack of problems that she brings with her. After a brief period of courtship, Asami and Shigeharu sleep together at a hotel - where a living nightmare begins in which Shigeharu is torn apart by feelings of paralysis at the loss of his wife, by the prickings of his guilty conscience, by anxiety for his son, and by the sweet torture of his desire for Asami, all of which come together in a surreal, sado-masochistic climax.
The tag line is "WorRAB create lies. Pain can be trusted"