Yono Miyako is a 30 year-old single contract employee. She returns from Tokyo to her hometown of Ibaraki, her dream city, to take care of her mother, and while there she meets Hashima Kanichi, a kind but financially unstable part-time clerk. They share a mutual attraction, and the relationship between the two deepens, but as they confront their realities and worries for the future, the two find themselves drifting apart.