Casablanca, Morocco. A trio of women, with the police on their tail, embarks on a long escape that takes them across the rugged red terrain and flower-filled valleys of the Atlas to finally reach the Atlantic coast.。When a broken hearted boy loses the treasured wooden nativity set that links him to his dead father, his worried mother persuades a lonely ill-tempered woodcarver to create a replacement, and to allow her son to watch him work on it. The commission takes their relationship to unexpected places as the young client makes greater and more difficult demands of the woodcarver's abil...。少女叶子(水沢奈子 饰)自幼便失去了父母,在孤儿院中长大。成人之后,叶子决定寻找自己的亲生父母,并得知他们目前生活在南条公馆之中。叶子和老师诚也(堀部圭亮 饰)一起踏上了前往公馆的旅途,因为恶劣的天气,叶子被获准在公馆里居住一夜,天亮后,叶子第一次看到了自己的父亲南条敬三(野口五郎 饰)。
父女团聚让叶子和敬三的内心里充满了喜悦,然而,叶子亦悲哀的得知,自己的母亲夕子(浅野温子 饰)因为早年的一场意外失去了理智,变为疯妇。叶子离开了孤儿院住进了公馆里,然而,之后发生的种种诡异事件让叶子开始怀疑在这间公馆中,隐藏着不为人知的秘密。。