Four 22 year-olds on a Mexican road trip seem bound for disaster until they, and their trip, are unexpectedly redeemed by a series of miraculous events.
The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who fought to protect the vanishing African mountain gorillas, which was found brutally killed in 1985.
太宰治の小説「斜陽」をもとにした本作では太平洋戦争後、没落貴族となった島崎かず子が道ならぬ恋に突き進んでいくさまが描かれる。