Tetsuya Takehora

Three years ago, Ayano lost her husband and was running a small delivery business on her own, raising her daughter, Asami. Unable to pay high wages and struggling with high employee turnover, she followed the advice of her neighbor, Mr. Shiroyama, and offered her body to a new employee, Nishikawa, to get him to promise to stay for three years. Then, one day, Ayano and Asami had an argument. Asami confided in her boyfriend, Tonoyama, who embraced her tenderly and suggested they live together, but afterwards, Tonoyama ran off with the company's money…

Kimie, a married woman, is bored at home, and spends her days masturbating in her tracksuit without any makeup on. Her husband, Shinji, sighs at the sight of his wife. Concerned about their life together, their landlady advises Kimie to shed her tracksuit and prepare a feast for her husband when he returns home, enjoying a pleasant conversation. She then puts on some flashy clothes and goes out into the city. Shinji, who happens to be nearby, doesn't even recognize her. Through a series of unexpected events, Kimie becomes close to a younger girl named Yuki…

Futaba, the proprietress of an inn in a hot spring town near Chichibu, hears from her husband, the manager, Isamu, that a travel guide writer is coming to the inn secretly to do an interview, and ends up over-entertaining the man who seems to be the man. Isamu is jealous, and Kuniko, a waitress who has a crush on him, approaches him. One day, a guest comes in who turns out to be Kuniko's former colleague. Futaba resolutely confronts Kuniko, who is laughing at her for telling a lie. Futaba and Isamu then swear to continue protecting the inn.