Mineko Yatabe is a teenager living in a very rural area of Ibaraki Prefecture in 1964, the year of the Tokyo Olympics.

Mineko travels to Tokyo to find him, and begins to work at a small electronics factory while continuing her search.

Luckily, she is hired by Suzuko Makino as a waitress at her restaurant, the Suzufuri-tei, which happened to be her father's favorite eatery.

Mineko falls in love with a college student, Junichirō Shimatani, but they part when his father forces him to marry to save the family business.

Mineko then falls in love with Hidetoshi Maeda, one of the junior chefs at the Suzufuri-tei.