Misako Wa

The Xuanwu Bookstore plans to publish a medium-sized national language dictionary for contemporary people, "The Great Ocean". The experienced and meticulous national language scholar Matsumoto Tomoyu (played by Kato Tsuyoshi) serves as the supervisor and director. However, the editor he values most, Araki Tadashi (played by Kobayashi Kaoru), has reached retirement age and chooses to return home to take care of him

Tired of the hustle and bustle and the mechanical and dull life in the big city, Rie (played by Tomoyo Harada), a woman full of fantasies, and her gentle and considerate husband fled Tokyo and settled on a small hill near a lake in Tsukura, Hokkaido. The Mizuko couple run a bakery and coffee shop called Mani here, and they divide the work