In the second summer of her marriage, Mei begins living with her husband and father-in-law. Having grown up without a father after her parents divorced, she comes to love her father-in-law like the dad she never had. Their happy life together falls apart when a bottle sent by his friend reveals his horrifying drinking problem: the normally gentle older man becomes sexually violent when drunk. After he crudely assaults her in front of her husband, he sneers that her body is the perfect drinking snack, beginning a twisted secret relationship she can never tell her husband about.