Plot Summary:A look at the problems two couples, Kohei and Kinuko, and Manabe and Hijiri, have in their relationships, and the solutions they try to devise as a way out. Kohei and Kinuko, despite their age difference, seem like a happy pair, but their is an insurmountable distance between them. Kohei is married to another woman, and Kinuko, though she know he will never divorce, can't bring herself to break off the relationship and start anew. Manabe and Hijiri, meanwhile, start off happily enough, but eventually their passion begins to wane as Manabe starts looking to other women for sex. Hijiri, feeling rejected, moves into an apartment next door to Kinuko, where she plots to break up the mismatched couple to her own advantage.
チケット屋で働く絹子は公平という男と、火曜日だけしか会えない不倫を続けていた。ある日、昔のバイト仲間だった聖と、自称「路上の言葉職人」真鍋という男と出会い、意気投合する。公平との恋愛をずるずると続けている絹子に、別れろと口うるさく言う聖は、数日後、絹子の隣の部屋へと引越ししてくる。