Details
- Episodes:13
- Format:TV
- Average Score:70
- Popularity:359
- Status:Finished Airing
- Season:Spring 2021
- Duration:23 min. per ep. minutes
- Genre:Drama, Romance
- Country:JP
Office worker Yoshida has been crushing on his coworker, Airi Gotou, for five years. Despite finally scoring a date with her, his confession is promptly rejected. Drunk and disappointed, he stumbles home, only to find a high school girl sitting on the side of the road. The girl, needing a place to stay the night, attempts to seduce Yoshida. Despite rejecting her advances, he nevertheless invites her into his apartment. The next morning, the girl, introducing herself as Sayu Ogiwara, reveals that she has run away from Hokkaido all the way to Tokyo. During her six-month spree, she continually traded sexual favors for a roof over her head. Yoshida, however, remains unswayed by her seduction. Instead, he has her do a different kind of work—one that entails washing dishes and doing laundry. And so, a touching relationship between a heartbroken adult and a runaway high school girl begins.
Episodes
1. The Teenage Girl Beneath the Lamplight
A young salaryman finds a teenage girl sitting under a lamp post on his way home. She offers to sleep with him in exchange for a place to stay. He turns her down, but gives her a place to stay anyway. Their strange life together begins...
2. Cell Phone
Things are changing quickly for Yoshida, as the girls at work start to take an interest in him. Meanwhile, he tries to get Sayu a cellphone, but she refuses...
3. Living Together
Yoshida settles into his new life with Sayu, but the people around him are quick to notice the change, and very curious about what's going on.
4. Part-Time Job
Sayu picks up a part-time job, which leads her to make a new friend. The new friend wants to come over, but what if she finds about Sayu and Yoshida?
5. Reality
Gotou demands to be taken to see Sayu. Is she trying to get a love rival out of the picture, or is she after something else?
6. Starry Sky
Sayu has an encounter with a man from her recent past, and his intentions aren't good at all.
7. Yearning
As Sayu's family gets closer and closer to tracking her down, she realizes that she may be heading home sooner than she thinks.
8. Summer Festival
Sayu's brother has tracked her down, and she realizes it's only a matter of time before she has to go home. She's forced to reflect; what did she learn since she ran away, and what will she take home with her?
9. Past
Before she goes home, Sayu decides to open up about her terrible past, and what made her run away.
10. Proof
As Sayu prepares to go home, Yoshida is forced to make a choice. Will he let their relationship end here?
11. Resolve
Yoshida follows Sayu back to Hokkaido, as she begins to face her past and come to terms with her future.
12. Mother
Back in Hokkaido, Sayu returns home to confront her mom and decide her future.
13. Future
It's time for Yoshida to head back home, and Sayu to return to her old life. Can she get by without him, and can he get by without her?
