Her husband comes home drunk, dragging his subordinate Hayami along, and starts lecturing him about work right there at the dinner table. Kotone, the wife, calmly smooths things over, looking after her exhausted husband while also being considerate to Hayami. But Hayami finds himself unable to shake an intense obsession with Kotone's casual gestures and voluptuous body, a twisted desire quietly catching fire in his chest. The next morning, the husband confesses he's been called in for an internal review over a harassment complaint and is at risk of losing his job. Kotone, shaken, finds Hayami standing before her again. Holding his testimony from the review over her head, he tells her that her husband's fate now rests on his word alone, and proposes a cold-blooded ‘deal.’ Kotone is pushed toward a choice she can never take back...