少女早月因男友死于交通事故而悲不自胜，每日起来晨跑，但愿稍稍纾解内心的哀伤。也因为跑步，她与奇人浦罗邂逅，从而得见百年一遇的景象：在清晨的薄雾中，她隐约看见男友微笑着朝她挥手作别，然后渐渐淡去。这次特殊的重逢，成全了早月怀念的心，让她从此能够重新面对现实生活。

故事改编自以撒辛格的短篇小说，描述犹太人女子杨朵在二十世纪初的东欧为了追求梦想而女扮男装求学的故事。在20世纪初，家住东欧的犹太女孩燕特尔非常好学，但当地的风俗禁止女孩上学，于是她只好女扮男装。在学校，有一个男生跟她很要好，但他俩的关系涉及到性取向错乱的议题。

The Kinema Junpo critics were, of course, mistaken to think that Naruse had abandoned his emphasis on women. His next film, Sincerity, features two strong female characters, played by Irie Takako and Murase Sachiko, each of whom have a daughter. The girls are schoolmates, but one (Nobuko) is from a middle-class home and the other (Tomiko) is from a poor family. Tomiko's mother Tsutako (Irie) is a single mother who works from home as a seamstress, while Nobuko's mother lives in an elegant home with her husband, Kei. Eventually, it is revealed that Kei had a romantic relationship with Tsutako, and may be Tomiko's father as well, but he is conscripted shortly after this revelation and goes off to war.This is very much a home front film, in which the women are involved in supporting activities, and the whole town cheers on the new recruits. As Kei is a banker, he is conscripted as an officer. He is introduced brandishing a magnificent sword, indicating his readiness for his call-up, for which everyone congratulates him when it comes. The wartime context is little more than a backdrop to the story of paternity and former love. The complex emotions among the women are conveyed through cutting on eye movements and eye lines, and through the use of the pastoral location.

根据鲁茂·戈登的原作改编，让·雷诺阿的首部彩色长片，是他和他的侄子摄影师在印度境内拍摄的影片，也是让·雷诺阿的一次感官与视觉之旅。故事围绕三个年轻女孩的成长忧伤出发，让·雷诺阿以细致的笔触叙述古老孟加拉河流域的传奇故事。影片直接启发了一代印度大师萨蒂亚吉特·雷伊投入电影创作。