Our hero, a slutty political activist , lives in a poor Japanese village and spends most days on the corner stool in the pub . One day the political activist meets a homeless supermarket checkout girl . Together they have an affair. It's a deperate attempt by one of them to make their partner jealous, while the other is trying to rescue their self-esteem . Along the way they survive the treacherous pursuit of a trained assassin and in the end they live out their lives in a witness protection programme .