“Could you help me without asking for sex?” Ririko’s banker husband embezzled money and left them owing massive restitution. Fleeing the public eye, she became a hostess. She never drank with customers, but spent 12 years numbing herself with alcohol at home until she was finally ready to open her own club and nearly finish repaying the debt. Then a collector shows up at her club: her disgraced husband has become a gambler and piled up even more debt. With no way to pay, Ririko is forced to abandon the one rule she has always protected.