[1][2] It recounts a doomed love affair between a conventional man and a mentally unstable girl with suicidal tendencies.

While he is sitting drawing at the beach café one morning, he sees the rescue of a beautiful young woman who has tried to drown herself.

In addition to her unpredictable mood changes, he is also perturbed by her tendency to attract male attention by sexual exhibitionism.

In fact she is a patient in an open psychiatric hospital and in no state for a stable relationship, let alone marriage.

Back at his house she becomes impossible to live with, losing her grip on reality and cutting off all her hair.