It is Tokyo in 1935. 10-year-old Yanagi Etsuko (Hirao Nanaka) is a young girl who loves songs. Her father Kantaro (Santamaria Yusuke), a struggling lyricist, still cannot forget her late mother and wastes his life away. Seeing her father like this, Etsuko begins a search for Kantaro’s second bride and new partner who will be her mother. Her first target is her teacher Muraoka Masako (Murakawa Eri) whom she eggs on to land a date with her father. However, it does not go very well. The next person who catches her attention is a salesgirl Ikebe Kyoko (Kadowaki Mugi) whom she met at a department store. Etsuko is drawn to Kyoko’s simplicity and gradually begins to love her as if she were her own mother. However, at that moment, Kantaro’s elder sister Tsuruyo (Minemura Rie) pursues the subject of an arranged introduction with Kusakabe Kaoru (Ishida Nicole), the incredibly beautiful daughter of a bank owner who is a shareholder of her husband’s (Aijima Kazuyuki) company … … |