The Temple of Wild Geese

Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate when her master the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto dies she is given to the temples lascivious head priest Kikuchi She is drawn to a melancholy young acolyte Jinen who has observed the profligacy of his cruel master and Satokos utter dependence on the man Jinen is both fascinated and disturbed by Satokos interest in him he is similarly caught between loathing of Kikuchi and of the dark circumstances of his birth and his own moral weakness The story unfolds in a dreamlike mannera flashback inspired by a nowinfamous image on a silkscreen in the souvenir shop at the socalled Temple of the Wild Geese