Hiroshi, who runs a mental clinic, has never recovered from the shock of his wife’s suicide. One day, Ayako, a mysterious patient comes to his clinic….

1995年1月17日未明、神戸市を突然の激しい揺れが襲った。寝室で寝ていた忠夫は、妻・千賀代と二人の娘を非難させ、自分は災害救助にあたる。やがて火の手があがり、生き埋めになった人々を次々に呑み込んでいった。火は燃え続け、鷹取商店街では995棟が全焼、105名が命を落とした。忠夫の家も全てが焼き尽くされ跡形も残ってはいなかった。そんなある日、車のトランクを開けると、無傷のままのゴルフバッグが横たわっていた。忠夫は衝撃に突き動かされたかのように、ゴルフのプロテストに挑戦することを決意する。

One day Kyoko watches television and sees a man turning himself in to the police after murdering a family. Something within Kyoko connects with the man, as she recognizes a similar soul. Despite the worries of the killer's lawyer, she approaches the killer and the two start corresponding.

Country girl Akiko visits a Tokyo college in search of her hometown sweetheart. In the course of finding him, she runs into various odd inhabitants of the college campus–blasé intellectuals, horny co-eds, a psych professor in search of the theory of shame, and of course her beloved Yoshioka, who has become an elusive campus nobody.

Mitsuko, a thirty-something Japanese secretary, lives a very simple life devoid of ambition. She has an affair with Eiji, a rich, arrogant and newly divorced businessman who is intrigued by her retiring personnality but she quickly breaks up as he repeatedly tries to make her change her lifestyle and values. While Eiji ponders the reasons of the breakup, Mitsuko falls for one of her neighbours, a young slacker who has the same approach to life as her. But Mitsuko's new lover is fascinated by Eiji's power and social status... A triangle that will inevitably leave one of the characters "unloved".