In a motel near the Sea of Japan, two university students from Kyoto, Shinichi - an ex-activist and ...
In a motel near the Sea of Japan, two university students from Kyoto, Shinichi - an ex-activist and Hiroshi - a trotskyist and an individualist at the same time, and their girlfriends are exchanging partners. Shinichi and his girlfriend are attacked by two followers of the owner of the motel on the seashore, and then experience a queer pleasure. After having returned to Kyoto, they go back to the seashore so as to learn about the incident and meet the owner, who turns out to be the leader of a small community. They follow him to a village in the mountains, where he is creating a sort of Utopia based on the idea of primitive communism, which has auto-sufficient agriculture and eroticism as its principles. In Kyoto, the other couple worry about their disappeared friends, and also go back to the seashore. There, they are attacked by the members of the community and are brought to the village. Shinichi and Hiroshi, sometimes with the leader, longly discuss various notions and thoughts such as Utopia, time, revolution and charisma. Shinichi, who no longer believes in the future, is attracted by the community, whereas Hiroshi, who believes in eternal revolution, rejects its thought. And during their opposition, an incident triggers off the rapid collapse of the community...
