Ogata Shingo is growing old and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain. The relationships which have previously defined his life - with his son his wife and his attractive daughter-in-law - are dissolving and Shingo is caught between love and destruction.|Yasunari Kawabata was born near Osaka in 1899 and was orphaned at the age of two. His first stories were published while he was still in high school and he decided to become