Sawako (Haru Kuroki) and her husband Toshio (Tasuku Emoto) are both mangaka. She is in the foreground while he has resigned himself to a subordinate role. After five years, the marriage begins to show cracks. Sawako suspects her partner of cheating and decides to process her suspicions in a manga.
What initially seems like a simple relationship drama soon becomes a cat and mouse game in which reality and fiction are creatively mixed.
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