Maria supports her husband, a struggling painter. Their buyer friend Ueda visits the studio and says he is about to meet Ozawa, a famously solitary artist. He invites Maria's husband, who deeply admires Ozawa, and Maria joins them. Ten years earlier, Ozawa's wife left while posing for him, causing him to abandon both his unfinished masterpiece and painting itself. Standing before that incomplete work, Ueda suggests Maria become his new model...