The drama portrays people like "beasts" blinded by greed, while shedding light on the evil that lies behind the political and financial world through the life of one woman's vicissitudes. Tamiko Narisawa (Yuko Natori), a waitress at a ryotei, conspires with a man she met as a guest named Kotaki (Tsutomu Yamazaki) to murder her bedridden husband in what appears to be an accident. She was then sent to political mastermind Kito (Akira Nishimura) with the promise of a large reward. Dramatization of Seicho Matsumoto's classic work of social suspense, "Kemonomichi".