A portrait of a man who analyses his life on his 44th birthday. The past and the present, the actual and potential developments blend in a dreamy vision. "The protagonist seems to assume that travelling in time is possible, and things happen in an imaginary, invented time which he fittingly adjusts and changes", said Konwicki in the Film Press News 1/1972. The film is a formall...。年届半百的征三拜访双胞弟征彦的画坊,两人为一本画册,遍访记忆中梦幻的村庄,将时光倒叙至童年生活──1948年,自小有画画天份的□生兄弟,因母亲兼老师的教学态度,使村内同学对他俩轻蔑及冷嘲热讽,于是二人独自游玩,与大自然为伴,以抒发心中情绪;母亲的教育,把孩子对人、事、物的好奇,变成自然的成长……。某大学医院里,以某个患者的可疑死亡为契机,无法再上升的病理学医生·藤卷达臣发现了未知的杀人球菌“Gift”。如果这种球菌侵入体内,患者很快就会死亡。后来,球菌完全消失,死因只能诊断为急性心力衰竭,这是一种让完全犯罪成为可能的可怕球菌。意外登上权力阶梯的藤卷,能否在围绕杀人球菌的壮烈求生中生存下来?生存与死亡,正义与邪恶,纠葛到最后,他看到的景象是?而将球菌带入医院,导致连环杀人案的真凶究竟是谁呢?。