Nise Daigakusei is an odd, straightforward youth drama by Yasuzo Masamura, set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students. One potential student has not passed the entrance exams and because he cannot bring himself to tell his mother the truth, he hangs around campus as though he were enrolled. As an indirect part of this deception he becomes involved with the leftists students and once they discover that he is not a student they immediately suspect he is a government mole, out to get them in trouble. The group's subsequent actions lead to tragic results.