The play opens with a soliloquy about a childhood friend, a painter, who used to hang out in an "immoral room" with a prostitute. The prostitute's name is Tomomi, and the play is set in her room. The painter is trying to seduce the prostitute by rubbing her body with his fingers. The sex is so intense that it makes the painter's fingers twitch. The scene ends with the painter saying that his paintings are not as good as he expected them to be.