Shinobu Watanuki (Sayaka Yamaguchi) has been married to her husband Yohei for 15 years. She is 40-years-old and has a middle student aged son. She has spent over 20 years as a manga writer's assistant, but now works as unpopular manga writer. Her days are ordinary and unsatisfying. As the last chance for her fledgling manga writer career, she decides to write a new manga. For her new project, she recruits an assistant. One of the applicants is a 22-year-old man named Chiaki Tachibana.—AsianWiki