In the middle of the night, a car crashes into the sea at a ferry station. The older man drowns in it, his newlywed wife is able to save herself. She is a lot younger than him; a beautiful, self-confident woman with a dark past - of which her husband had no idea. When a local reporter pounces on the mysterious death and elevates the young widow to a femme fatale with criminal energy, Onizuka Kumako is suddenly publicly suspected of murder. The hatred for her is so great that even her lawyers fear for her reputation, until a particularly ambitious defense lawyer shakes all certainties.