Introduction to Volume 1: Fifty-two-year-old Yoshiharu Morimoto has worked tirelessly for the past 30 years since joining the company, and is now a bank branch manager. A company man, he had dreamed of returning to the head office, but was stunned one day when he was asked to be transferred to an affiliate company. Feeling doubtful about his life, he decides to take a trip to the Matterhorn in Switzerland in a state of desperation. There he meets an elegant and refined Japanese woman named Makik...
