Sserialized in local newspapers from 1985 to 1986 and published by Kadokawa Shoten, it follows Noriko Kai as she manages the French restaurant Avignon in Kobe after her husband's death.

In 1989, the story was adapted into a television drama that aired on NHK General TV, starring Shima Iwashita, Hideaki Nitani, and Toshiyuki Nagashima.

Additionally, the Japanese band Carlos Toshiki & Omega Tribe released the single "Hana no Furu Gogo" on September 5, 1989, as a tie-in for the film.

In the afterword to Miyamoto Teru Zenshū dai 8-kan, he wrote that the reason for writing this work was his desire to see the good people in the story find happiness after a series of accidents and misfortunes involving friends, acquaintances, and family members.

Four years later, Masamichi Takami, a young painter, visits the restaurant and offers Noriko a painting called White House and proposes holding his own exhibition there.

Consulting her acquaintance, Doctor Wong Kin Ming, Noriko learns that Yukio and Misa Araki, a couple involved in gambling and diamond smuggling, were attempting to take over Avignon.

It was written by Hata Mineaki and directed by Hiroyuki Eguchi, with the theme song "Hitori Botchi no Dimanshe (Nichiyōbi)" by Yasuko Ōki.

[10] On September 5, 1989, the Japanese band Carlos Toshiki & Omega Tribe released the single "Hana no Furu Gogo" as a tie-in for the film.