The Sasaki couple, who ran a sheet metal factory, had finally obtained a new apartment and were working hard to pay off the loan. Just then, their parent company went bankrupt, and their trading bank stopped lending them money. Worse still, her husband died in an accident. Akiko, beset by a series of tragedies, wanted to protect the sheet metal factory left behind by her beloved husband despite being burdened with a large amount of debt. Then, Yoshino, who worked at an investment firm, visited Akiko as she struggled with cash flow. Yoshino proposed to buy out Akiko's debts in exchange for certain conditions...
