Leaving her well-to-do husband proves that money can't buy happiness. Her friend Yoko empathizes with Hikaru's plight due to her husband's controlling nature. He constantly criticizes her choices, saying things like "don't associate with people outside your social class" or "don't shop at convenience stores." Feeling suffocated by his words, Hikaru turns to Masahiro, an outsider salesman she met through Yoko, for an unexpected gift of freedom...

「お金持ちと結婚しても、ぜーんぶ幸せって訳じゃないのねぇ」そう、友人の葉子に同情されるのは、ひかるの夫の性格。世間体を気にするあまり「家柄の釣り合わない者とは付き合うな」「コンビニなんかで買い物するな」…などと逐一口出しされ息が詰まるとこぼすひかるに、葉子はデパートの外商・真田を介して意外な方法で『自由』をプレゼントするのだった…。