Tokyo, the 10th year of the Taisho period (1921). Fuki, a 24-year-old maid working at the manor house of the distinguished Tachibana family, is reunited with their son Yugo, who has returned home to enroll at The First Imperial University. With Fuki's engagement having been dissolved and Yugo having been charged with finding himself a suitable wife, she accepts his proposal of marriage. In an era when parents' consent is necessary for marriage, and despite the gap between the two in both age and social standing, the admirable maid and elite student's married life is about to begin.
