With no practical skills and being slightly scatterbrained, Kin Aoyama ran away from her small hometown of Kitakaruizawa at the foot of Mt. Asama and a casual relationship with the sensitive Haruo Taguchi, a composer and organist, for a life in Tokyo. Making good money as stripper Lily Carmen, although she characterizing what she does as art and thus not ashamed of it, she sends much money and gifts home, her father, poor farmer Shoichi Aoyama who has a love/hate relationship both with Kin and the money solely in she having run away, he not aware of the specifics of what she does to earn it. With a week long requisite break, Kin, with her friend and fellow dancer Maya Akemi in tow to help her nurse a broken heart, returns home for the first time both to her family and a now married Taguchi, who was blinded in the war. While some in town see Kin and Maya as breaths of fresh air in bringing culture to their small provincial town, others, including Shoichi and the innocent schoolteacher Mr. Ogawa who Maya has her eyes set on to help her mend her broken heart, are scandalized in not embracing their flashy big city ways. That divide may spread further apart when Kin and Maya decide for various reasons to put on a show performing one of their routines, in the process everyone in town becoming aware of the nature of Kin's work. The voice of what's right and wrong in town, the school's principal may have his own perspective of Kin's return, which places a further light on what is happening in town in general.
Carmen Comes Home
A girl who had left her home village for life in Tokyo returns to her home years later, and evokes a scandal when the locals discover that she's a stripper.
