What is waiting for you at the end of your endurance? Hirono's way of life is denied by Ryo Arisue, a novelist whom she has never met before. She has continued to put others before herself and has always been a poor girl. In the midst of her dismissal and the departure of her lover, Hirono recalls Ryo's proposal in her lonely room. "If I bring about a change in my tattered life, I am prepared to take the devil's hand." The first step toward a new courage, a fateful choice that shakes the heart, now spreads out before Hirono.