In a mesmerizing performance, Japan's reigning stage actress, Naomi Fujiyama, plays the hopelessly dowdy and painfully shy Masako, a slave to her family's dry-cleaning business. Taunted and abused by her younger sister, she is trapped in isolation and humiliation until a startling act of violence compels her to finally hit the road. So begins Masako's life as a fugitive. The outsider heroes of Junji Sakamoto's previous films have been gangsters, gamblers, and boxers. It may seem strange that Sakamoto finds his newest protagonist in an awkward, middle-aged seamstress, but Masako is the ultimate outsider: a once-invisible woman who at long last finds freedom and self worth as a renegade.