A man from the capital who has been away in the eastern provinces for more than three years returns to the capital on the day of the Kamo Festival and there sees his wife.  She, however, has lost her reason and although they talk together and she dances for him, she does not realize who he is.  She tells how, unable to bear her husband's absence any longer, she set off to the east on a fruitless search for him, and how loneliness and disappointment have made her mad.  They then recognize and acknowledge each other, but because of the curiosity of the onlookers they pretend to be strangers and leave separately, to be reunited in their home.