To spare the child an upbringing in precarious financial circumstances, Carmen and Akemi leave her at the doorstep of the upper-class Sudō family, but soon return in bad conscience to take her back.

When Carmen is fired after refusing to strip naked in front of Hajime, Chidori, and Kumako, whom she spotted in the audience, she decides to turn to "serious art" and takes ballet classes while working as an advertising girl for skin cream and rat poison.

Contrary to the Sudō family's housemaid, who loses her job after confronting Kumako for her pro-rearmament politics, Hajime agrees to support his future mother-in-law's campaign out of sheer conformity.

In the final scene, the housemaid, now working as a shoeshiner, shakes her head over the election results she reads in a newspaper, with marching music and battlefield sounds drowning out the street noise.

[5] Film historian Alexander Jacoby called Carmen's Pure Love an "uneasy, somewhat misanthropic satire" in contrast to the "tender humour" of its predecessor.