冬日的傍晚，滑冰场发现一具无头女尸，经查此人是餐厅服务员刘丽珠，刑警单立人（葛优 饰）着手调查此案。刘的丈天对妻子的遇害反应冷漠，虽不合常理，但最终排除了作案可能。死者身上的一个电话号码让一个叫李建平（尤勇 饰）的人纳入警方视线，单立人传讯了李建平，调查得知该人一惯招摇撞骗、玩弄女性感情。从他的房间里搜出B型血衣，正好和死者血型相吻合，但李矢口否认杀死了刘丽珠。次年春天，冰雪消融，有一捕鱼人从河里捞起了刘丽珠的头颅，面对铁证，百般抵赖的李建平心理防线彻底崩溃，他如实交代了强奸未遂杀人灭口的作案过程......An insane man first loves then grows to hate his neighbor, an old man whose penetrating gaze unnerves the insane man. He plans a perfect crime and executes it one night. The next day, two officers knock on the insane man's door, investigating a shriek heard in the night. The insane man invites them in, answers their questions, and submits to an examination of his eyes by one of the officers, who proclaims him innocent. The insane man invites them to stay and relax awhile, then regales them with his theories of crime. His heart begins to beat louder. Angles on the set are skewed to suggest the man's internal disarray.A lesbian couple in conservative Japan must fight to stay together when one of them is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
