小镇里，一家超级市场的宣传车四处开动，正在播放着周年庆大减价的消息，森田屋的礼子（高峰秀子饰）却很苦恼。这家家庭式百货商店是礼子婆家的店，结婚不久后，丈夫于战场战死，家里只剩下上了年纪的婆婆（三益爱子饰）和年纪尚幼的小叔幸司（加山雄三饰）。礼子一人扛下经营的重担，一晃十八年，而现在却遭到超级市场的大冲击。礼子的小姑们——久子（草笛光子饰）和隆子（白川由美饰）想要借森田屋这块地皮改造成超级市场，而改...

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers hims...