Yuri Makurano is an unattractive girl who learns her mother is a famous actress named Shoko Hanai following her grandmother's death.

Yuri begins to live with her mother's family which consists of three children named Sumire, Aoi, and Fuyo Hanatashiki.

Yuri is treated as a maid at the household, eventually bonding with the family and builds up unrequited feelings for Sumire.

Bara no Tame ni is authored by Akemi Yoshimura and was serialized in Shogakukan's Petit Comic between 1992 and 1998.

[citation needed] It was compiled into sixteen tankōbon volumes released between September 1992 and January 1998.