Shiori, a part-time housewife in her fifth year of marriage, lived a peaceful life with her husband, a kind and hardworking businessman. Her husband had always been a little too nice. "You're too nice," she said. "You know, you even guarantored a friend's loan before." One day, her husband came home with an old friend whom he had met by chance on his way home from work. It turned out that the man, Noguchi, was about the same age as her husband, but was currently unemployed and looking for work, and didn't even have a place to stay.