[3] Following a breakup with his girlfriend, Sho Kawajiri sinks into an existential crisis and hides himself at home, before his father, Norio, pays him a surprise visit.

During Matsuko's early life, she struggled to gain the attention of her father, who was mostly concerned with her chronically ill sister, Kumi.

Norio blames her for destroying their family and gives her some money while telling her that their father had died 3 months after she left.

During a rainstorm, Matsuko witnesses Tetsuya commit suicide by standing in front of a train, devastating her.

After Okano's wife forces him to confess, he then blames Matsuko and breaks up with her before telling her that he has never loved her and was only attracted to her body.

A few months later after making some money, Matsuko returns home, where she reads her father's diary and is moved to tears at his concern for her disappearance.

As he wails over his injury and threatens to sue Matsuko, she seizes the opportunity to stab Onodera to death.

Back in the past, following Onodera's death, Matsuko boards a train to Tokyo, where she intends to commit suicide at the Tamagawa Aqueduct.

However, a man enters and attacks Sho, demanding to know where Matsuko is; he is dejected upon learning of her death, and reveals himself to be Ryu.

One day, Matsuko tells Ryu that she has quit her job at the salon, while also trying to stop him from going back to the yakuza.

Some time later, Ryu asks Matsuko to meet him at a hotel, where she finds him severely beaten by the yakuza due to his gambling debts.

Back in the past, Matsuko rents a house near the river at Kita-Senju Station, where she spends her days doing nothing but eating and drinking.

One day, she sees a performance by Hikaru Genji on TV, and develops a crush on its leader, Kohji Uchiumi.

That night, she has a dream of cutting Kumi's hair, and she is inspired to find Megumi's business card that she had previously discarded.

Eventually, Matsuko's soul stands in front of staircase to heaven, where Kumi is waiting for her and welcomes her back.