At Itabashi Station on the Nakasen Highway a woman drives a nail into a straw figure, but is killed by a paid assassin. She has scars on her feet. Ichi massages a woman who has similar scars, from the chains of the brothel owner Daikokuro Kanzo in Itabashi. At Daikokuro the women are treated badly. Sataro, the man who killed the woman at Itabashi Station, lies sick at Daikokuro but the owner wants him gone. Shino, one of the women, looks after him and they talk about their lives...