Gosho's first important postwar film, this is a love story with social overtones treating the changing political climate for Japanese intellectuals during the war and in the immediate postwar period. The film is a sumptuously mounted melodrama about a pacifist doctor, harrassed by the wartime police for his dedication to the social welfare movement, who falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy family (Mieko Takamine in a fine performance). The film is visually and tonally reminiscent of a Cukor film of the forties-with a few Sirkian touches, according to Arthur Nolletti, Jr., who recently introduced the Japan Society's Gosho tribute in New York.