midori isn't good with people, and at 31 years old, she feels like she has no place in life. one day, she is attending the funeral of a close friend of hers from junior high school, tsugumi. unable to forget about her, she has a vision of the young friend she knew standing above her – only it isn't the girl she once knew, but her daughter, haruko. this is the story of the relationship between a woman without a place and a child without a mother.