As a mother waits for a call from her child, she reflects upon how her daughter fell into the trap of marriage.

A family with a gene that allows them to transform into snakes grapples with tradition and intergenerational trauma. The two daughters of this family have to decide: will they stay with an abusive family, or will they molt out of it?

In post-World War II Japan, a boy is raised by his frigid father without love and spends the rest of his life endlessly pursuing it.