Aki (Rin Takanashi), is a student who moonlights as a call girl, and conceals her night work from her possessive and occasionally violent boyfriend, Noriaki (Ryo Kase).
This wondrous, fable-like, yet pain-streaked new film by the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami is set in Tokyo, where a young prostitute working her way through college (Rin Takanashi) is pressured by her firmly paternal pimp to see a john that night despite her prior appointment with her grandmother.