Our main characters are Norie Mizunuma, who teaches a dried flower class at the Kawaguchiko Hall of Herb & Fragrance, and Mizuki Tachibana, who, after having lost her parents at a young age to an accident at sea, is now being raised by her mother's younger sister, Norie. Now an adult and living on her own in Tokyo, Mizuki one day decides to ask Norie for permission to marry Tetsuji Kajiwara, who has a young child of his own. However, because she knows the difficulties of raising a child who is not her own, Norie is adamantly against the marriage.