The movie is set in the late 1930s, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, based on a banned short story by writer Edogawa Rampo. In the first scene, Lieutenant Kurokawa scourges, rapes and disembowels Chinese people during the war. Later, he returns home as a war hero, but with a horribly mutilated body. He is alive but reduced to a torso (no limbs), deaf and mute, with burns covering half of his face, but with three medals on his chest. Despite his condition, he is still constantly eager for sex, imposed on his wife, who is repelled by him, but who nevertheless feels a duty to take care of him.