This autobiographical novel by the author, born in 1983, depicts the struggles of a modern Japanese woman who wants to live a life fulfilled by work, love, and family. Novelist Shie Amano has gone through two divorces and now lives alone with her junior high school daughter in an apartment in Tokyo. She has recently started dating a university student 15 years younger than her whom she met through an interview, and tells her daughter that she wants to live with him. Upon hearing this, the daughter says she wants to leave her mother’s house and live with her father, who is Shie’s first husband and is related to Riko by blood. Shie is conflicted, wondering why she has to leave someone when she chooses someone else, and why she cannot live with all the people she loves. The only solace she finds in these unstable days is drinking, talking, and eating good food with those closest to her. The people she shares meals with are female writers in the same profession, her lover, her daughter, her ex-husband, and her editor, and through their conversations, the reality of love and family of people living in Tokyo in the coronavirus pandemic is expressed.