"Twenty-five-year-old Takako has enjoyed a relatively easy existence--until the day her boyfriend Hideaki, the man she expected to wed, casually announces he's been cheating on her and is marrying the other woman. Suddenly, Takako's life is in freefall. She loses her job, her friends, and her acquaintances, and spirals into a deep depression. In the depths of her despair, she receives a call from her distant uncle Satoru. An unusual man who has always...

An uncle and his nephew, armed with new hiking boots, snacks, water, and a map, take a hike through the woods.

Helen, an introvert who designs invitations to parties and galas to which she's not welcome, at her uncle Peter's insistence, prints an extra invitation to attend a soiree with Peter as her plus one, and what starts out as an innocent lark becomes much more.