Equal parts sleazy, frightening and intricate is Reiko Kitagawa's psychological horror story collection ''An Honest Lady'', where strange situations unfold into mental decay and shocking endings for their victims.

1. An Honest Lady (素直な女, Sunao na Onna)
   The wife of a famous and handsome celebrity is alone at home when she is raped by a sleazy home invader who dies during sex, after this event, she needs to uphold her husband's reputation.

2. The Dissolving Spectacle (情景は溶解する, Joukei wa Youkai-suru)
   A mother strangles a bird who she named after her husband's mistress

3. The Most Miserable of Songs (一番哀しい歌, Ichiban Kanashii Uta)
   What is the connection between a young woman's affair, a small abandoned boy, and the murder of a hated elderly lady?

4. The Divine Punishment (天の配剤, Ten no Haizai)
   A beautiful girl attends a psychiatric clinic as the terrifying true nature of her family is revealed.

5. Love, Collapsed (愛は崩れた, Ai wa Kuzureta)
   Madness quietly begins to destroy a happy marriage.