The protagonist (14 years old) is raped at the beginning of the film while her mother is banging on and crying by the door. She is left bleeding profusely. Another man covers her up and performs a surgery on the spot for her internal wounds. The rape is discussed vaguely or alluded to visually at many points of the film. The protagonist becomes a geisha, then a sex worker. She is visibly uncomfortable and dissociating during her first series of encounters. After seeing one of them, a man with whom she had a brotherly bond forces himself on her. The same protagonist strangles a man to death (it is unclear if i is out of his or her will), cuts off his penis to carry it with her, and carves her name into his dead body.