ROE-316 A mother who was repeatedly taken by her son in front of her late husband’s memorial portrait. Shoko Matsumoto

Shoko, who had lost her husband to illness, stared blankly at her late husband’s portrait. Her son, Hajime, stood firmly in her place and greeted the visitors who came to their home. That night, Hajime grew suspicious when he found his mother alone with his uncle in the empty living room. Listening from behind the sliding door, he discovered that his mother was being taken advantage of in exchange for financial support. Overcome by a mix of shameful feelings and a possessive desire not to let his uncle take his mother away, Hajime…