He is divorced and lives with his daughter Sakiko, a high school junior, in an apartment complex.

Yujiro stops going to work and spends every night at a "cabaret club" until closing time.

One night, at the dinner table, Sakiko asks, with some hesitation, "Hey, Dad, aren't you going to work?"

Yujiro hires a slightly overweight part-timer, Asami EGASHIRA, and Sakiko also decides to work as a waitress.

Because of the very scarcity of customers, Yujiro asks an old friend who runs a printing company to create flyers for the cafe.

Sakiko and Motoko go to hand them out in front of the nearest train station, but few people take them.

Although Sakiko and Yujiro don't know about it, Motoko slacks off and kills time at a burger restaurant, throwing the remaining stack of flyers in the trash when she leaves the shop.

Finally, Yujiro goes to the izakaya with Motoko, with the engagement ring he bought with the rest of his inheritance in his pocket.

Yujiro tries to bring the mood back to normal with harmless topics, but when the topic turns to Motoko's love life, she suddenly says that she had a sexual relationship with OZAWA, a customer who has been sexually harassing her, leaving Yujiro and Sakiko dumbfounded.

Then, when OZAWA comes to the cafe and Yujiro sees him holding Motoko's hand as usual, he slaps him on the head, and the two get into a big fight.

Yujiro asks Asami to come back and serve customers in the clothes Motoko was wearing, but it has no effect.