A sympathetic portrayal of the suffering of a deaf couple at the hands of a shell shocked postwar society that treats them like wayward children to be at turns pitied or exploited.

Tragic story of a deaf-mute(Takamine) who marries another deaf-mute(Kobayashi) she at a school for the deaf. Their first child dies accidentally, and just as they to find happiness with the birth of a second child, the man's hoodlum brother threatens to tear their world apart.—BGP