Single 38-year-old editor and food writer Izumi Kikuchi works for a small publishing company. She hasn't heard from her partner of 10 years in the last five months after lending him 2 million yen. After she suddenly receives a call on her phone, she is yelled at by an older woman. The older woman even enters the same cab with her and they are both heading to the same location. By chance, Izumi learns that the older woman is Haruko Nakajima, the owner of a very popular Tokyo beauty clinic.