Life-weary businessman Ozu meets a friend from his school days on the train. This meeting makes Ozu remember his youth, his war years and his friendship with the eccentric Hirame. Those were the years of idealism and faith in man for Ozu. Now the son of Ozu, an aspiring oncologist, is ready to resort to any tricks and intrigues for the sake of a career and a comfortable life, even if human life is at stake. Shusaku Endo, a classic of Japanese literature, winner of prestigious literary awards, nominated for the Nobel Prize several times, wrote an acute social drama about the generation gap. For the first time in Russian!