Moment of Terror

When the only son of a working class woman is fatally struck by a car driven by the adulterous wife of a company president in a hit-and-run, the victim's mother changes her identity and infiltrates the couple's home to work as their maid, plotting to murder their similarly-aged son.

• witness
• hit-and-run
• revenge
• sorrow
• car accident
• class differences
• single mother
• justice
• death of son
• dream sequence
• police interrogation
• housemaid
• illicit affair
• class relations
• shōwa era (1926-89)
• flashback to past