“I don’t want to pretend to be his girlfriend...” Takashi asks the couple to help deceive his mother, and the husband reluctantly agrees because he owes his friend money despite his wife’s objections. On the day of the meeting, she appears not in her usual bargain clothes but in an expensive designer dress Takashi gave her, making her husband feel painfully inferior. Hours later she returns late—and her wedding ring is mysteriously missing from her finger...