Dinner at the Asakura household... the two of them are silent. However, there is no tension in the air; if anything, it is peaceful. Yet, it is a silence so profound that it could be described as dead for a married couple's dinner table. ...Twenty years of sexlessness... that was the atmosphere it had created. Kosuke and Misako are both 50 years old. This day, just like yesterday, was supposed to pass quietly. "...Hey, honey." "...Hmm?" "...I want you to let me have an affair..."
