
Four Japanese housewives work the grueling
graveyard shift at a lunchbox factory in order to scrape by. Each one is on the edge for her own reasons: Yoshie, a middle-aged widow, lost her husband's income when he died, but didn't lose the responsibility of caring for his bed-ridden mother or their two irresponsible daughters; Kuniko, a childless 33-year-old with a taste for designer goods, is up to her neck in credit card debt; Masako, a 42-year-old mother of 1, was displaced from her job at...
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