is once again kindled. Sawa, now a divorcee, works in a restaurant on the beach in a small town, having moved away from Yokohama. Mr. Kitano is a lecturer at a university but, 3 years after breaking up with Sawa, he is scheduled to give a lecture in the seaside town. Sawa learns of the lecture and wants to go despite signing a legal agreement to stay away from Mr. Kitano with a monetary penalty to be paid monthly for life for any violations by having contact, however brief, with Mr. Kitano. Sawa sits in the back of the lecture hall, hiding her face, but Mr. Kitano sees her after a student raises his hand to ask a question. Sawa later sees Mr. Kitano and screams from the bus. They see each other again, meeting once a week by a river in the forest. To abide by the legal agreement, they don't hold hands or even exchange words. Eventually, Mr. Kitano's wife suspects something. One day, Mr. Kitano and Sawa get on the same bus and decide not to see each other again. Mr. Kitano rides a bus even though he has a dark blue BMW 3 series (internal designation of E90). Mr. Kitano's wife, however, is waiting for them at the bus stop and displays mental instability upon see them. She demands that both of them go with her to the hotel room and have sex in front of her. They reply that they did not do anything other than looking at insects. Sawa runs out of the hotel with Mr. Kitano chasing after her. Mr. Kitano talks with Sawa and says he is going to be with her. Later in the future, Mr. Kitano and Sawa are living together. Sawa is disliked by the other restaurant employees but not the owner. However, the owner turns against Sawa because his wife left him for another man. Seeing Mr. Kitano, the owner confronts Sawa, so she quits her job. Mrs. Kitano, who has been mentally unstable since before the film, shows up in a wheelchair. She purposely injured herself by jumping off her apartment balcony but said she fell down a flight of stairs. Mr. Kitano, meeting with his wife periodically to arrange for a divorce, helps his wife to recover. One day, Sawa follows Mr. Kitano and sees him in the same car with his wife. Not knowing that