Obsession becomes a physical thing that cannot be stopped. The priest hides under the bell thinking distance is a solution, but the woman's desire has already transformed into something bigger than either of them can escape. Kawamoto builds this as quiet tragedy, not spectacle, which means the real horror is watching two people destroyed by a feeling neither asked for.

A young Buddhist acolyte traveling with an elderly monk on a pilgrimage to the Kumano shrines stops for the night at a lodge run by a young widow, who falls for him at once. Tempted but unwilling, he slips away with a false promise to come back in three days. When she discovers the lie, she pursues him in a frenzy, and her passion turns her into an enormous white serpent. He escapes across the Hidaka River and takes shelter at Dojoji Temple, where the abbot hides him inside the great bronze bell. Kihachiro Kawamoto retells the old legend in a short supernatural film that mixes stop motion with standard animation.