how a young woman, romantically and professionally broken, will once again get a taste for life when she leaves the city to live in the countryside… shino feels totally lost in her life. she goes out with a past work colleague, masaki, quite macho…and troubles at her work make her leave it. she moves out, takes her independence, moves away from masaki and settles in a tiny room in an old building of suburbs. on her arrival, she finds a little garden she shares with her neighbours, a couple her own age. and little by little, she feels more and more attracted to the mysterious man who lives next door.