Rubbers

This psychological film follows for several days a very shy young adult woman (played by Aino Kishi), a loner with a good heart and healthy work ethics, who has the misfortune of growing up with obsessional attraction to rubber clothing, the attraction that potentially could make her a target for social rejection, ridicule, and mistreatment. She carefully conceals from her co-workers in a food factory the fact she wears such undergarments. An attractive male co-worker (played by Hiroshi Yamamoto) befriends her. He is conservatively dressed in a grey suit, white shirt, and a tie. While kissing her, he also attempts to caress her body when they are alone in her apartment. She panics, knowing that he eventually might detect her rubber undergarments. Unfortunately, he indeed reacts to this discovery with a disappointed surprise and then even with a rejection. However, when they again meet in the factory, they discuss her childhood fascination with an actor from action movies who also wore a cat-suit attire perhaps also made from rubber. Subsequently they again attempt to date and to meet each others need for intimate friendship. As in most such young relationships, they experience misunderstandings and frustrations on this pathway but they develop an affection for each other that eventually helps them to achieve more harmony.