Yoshida’s first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. The plot is fairly simple: a “good-for-nothing” from a poor background falls in love with the young secretary of his rich friend’s father. The woman senses good in him and tries to lead him on the right path.

Set in snow-covered Hokkaido, each moment of three high school boy’s life is captured in rough monochrome. Three high school boys on the verge of graduating from high school start working at a security guard company owned by an older student in their hometown. In an attempt to get away from the frantic pace of life, they learn how to drive a car in order to be useful in their work, but…