Hanyu Itsuki is a 41-year old housewife to a second-hand bookshop owner, Goji, and mother to a 14-year old girl. There is no love between Itsuki and Goji, but they stay together solely for the sake of their daughter. One day she catches a young man, Shida Motoharu, shoplifting an erotic novel from their bookshop. The incident triggers long forgotten passions within Itsuki, and in the course of events, she ends up having an affair with Motoharu.

Soon after, she bumps into another young man, Komota Ushio, who is a dead-ringer for her first love. She then starts an affair with him too. Two men, both she passionately loves, but in the past, all the men that she loved had all died...