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Tsujii Takashi, who works for a large construction company, lives with his wife Keiko in a house alo...
Tsujii Takashi, who works for a large construction company, lives with his wife Keiko in a house along the coast of Hayama in Kanagawa Prefecture. They have been together for 10 years, but are still happily married that Takashi would give Keiko a sapphire pendant on her birthday and they are considered the ideal couple by the people around them. However, it is a fact that at some point, they started to hide what they really feel and live with consideration for each other. One day, an unusually tense Takashi returns home with a purple trolley bag that Keiko does not recognise. He tells her not to touch the bag which has confidential company documents that he will be taking with him for a business trip to Kumamoto. On that day, he hurriedly takes the last flight to his destination. However, Keiko happens to see that the bag is full of 10,000 yen notes when they are parting.