A beautiful married woman was murdered by her husband, a famous Noh mask artist, because he suspected her relationship with her brother-in-law. The couple had a 5-year-old daughter. Fifteen years later, her daughter, now 20 years old, heard for the first time the details of the incident from her uncle who was the cause of her mother's death, but it was a story of a dark lust that could be called abnormal.

When the farmer's away, all the animals play, and sing, and dance. Eventually, though, someone has to step in and run things, a responsibility that ends up going to Otis, a carefree cow.