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Taki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a travelling carnival troupe. She falls in love with an orphaned carriage driver Kinya Murakoshi, and pledges to put him through law school in Tokyo. She always encloses money in her letters to him, until one hard winter there is no work to be found.

已是年老色衰的艺伎菊江（吉川満子 饰），为了支持儿子义雄（磯野秋雄 饰）的学业，不得不一次次抛头露面，靠卖笑赚取营生。然而义雄却并不理解母亲的苦衷，反而深以母亲的职业为耻。正处在青春期的他心中满是苦恼...