Shiho Murakami is a housewife who struggles to raise her 2-year-old daughter and complete her housework. She happens to meet and interact with various people such as a working mother, an elite bureaucrat, who all have similar problems related to housework.
A sudden summer accident shatters the peaceful lives of two couples, dragging a happily married editor into a web of grief, human selfishness, and her husband's hidden secrets.