Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the first half of the 20th-century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.
as Fumiko Hayashi
as Fukuya
as Nobuo Sadaoka
as Fujiyama
as Kishi, Fumiko's Mother
as Kyôko Hinatsu
as Haruhiko Itatsu
as Gorô Shirasaka
as Tamura
as Fumiko's Father
as Uenoyama
as Yasuko Murano
