Her relationship with her husband has cooled, and she starts working for a housekeeping service to distract herself from the tedium of her daily life. Kozue is dispatched to a single-parent household called the Hayashi family, where her son Yuta is a recluse, and she feels happy that he opens Kokoro to her. Yuta is attracted to her motherly tolerance and confesses his secret feelings to her... Kozue, who has not been touched by a man other than her husband for a long time, says, "I'm just an old lady, but is it really okay?" but she feels the joy of being seen as a woman and their relationship grows...