Plot
Saki Yoshida (ๅ็ฐๅฒ), a nerdy, socially awkward first-year
high school student, decides to change her appearance and enlists her mother's help in getting a makeover. While at a convenience store, an older man, Hayato, compliments her appearance and invites her to a
karaoke box. There, he gives Saki alcohol and
MDMA and rapes her, claiming he loves her. Though intoxicated, Saki believes the encounter is consensual and professes her love to him as well. He leaves her unconscious, but inputs his cell phone number into her phone. The two start dating, and she quickly gets addicted to having
sex while on drugs.
When Saki discusses her family's financial struggles, one of her friends from school recommends
compensated dating. Saki makes an appointment with an older man named Kumagai. After having dinner with Kumagai, he takes her to a hotel and offers her additional money to stay with him, eventually raping her. Saki returns home late and breaks down, whereupon her mother comforts her.
At school, Saki is approached by a group of male students who have photographic evidence of her encounter with Kumagai, which they use to blackmail her for sexual favors. After Saki's father is
laid off, he begins drinking heavily and rapes Saki in her room. He confesses this to Saki's mother, but is dishonest about the nature of the incident and instead alleges that Saki had seduced him. Enraged, Saki's mother savagely beats her before evicting her.
Saki drops out of school and begins spending more time with Hayato, who has accumulated eight million
yen in debt at a local
heroin bar. The bar owner, Mr. Obata, threatens to kill Hayato if he does not repay. Saki begins
accepting money for sexual favors from various bar patrons in order to accumulate the means to help Hayato pay his debt.
Saki drastically alters her appearance again, bleaching her hair, getting
spray tans, and acquiring various piercings and tattoos, including one of Hayato's name on her chest. Her various sexual encounters frequently result in pregnancy, causing her to receive regular
abortions. Saki soon finds herself returning to Kumagai, who, unimpressed with her body modifications, forces her to do increasingly degrading things to earn his payment. Mr. Obata sexually assaults Saki with other workers at the bar, injecting her with heroin to make her more compliant. She quickly develops an
addiction and begins to forget about paying off Hayato's debt in favor of buying drugs. When Saki is robbed and Hayato only finds drugs in her wallet, he furiously breaks up with her, leaving her homeless.
While under the influence in a public park, she is raped by two homeless men. The following day, Saki discovers she is pregnant again, but decides to carry the baby to term, vowing to quit drugs and turn her life around in the process. She continues her prostitution to earn money, and resumes her heroin use to mitigate her physical pain. While putting some of her savings into a duffel bag in a public coin locker, she runs into a group of teenagers who assume the money is stolen, not believing that Saki could have earned so much on her own. They brutally rape her with various objects and beat her stomach, causing her to miscarry, and steal her cash before leaving.
Bleeding profusely, Saki stumbles into the restroom, becoming horrified at the sight of herself in the mirror. She ties her hair into braids and puts on a pair of glasses, emulating her middle school self, before wailing in anguish and shattering the mirror. Figuring that she has nothing left to live for, Saki
overdoses on her entire remaining volume of heroin.
[1] Saki imagines a future in which she had been able to happily raise her daughter, and dies with a smile on her face.
