Chise Takamura, a construction worker, finds herself exhausted. Her boss is noisy, the boys who work under her are selfish, and she is no longer old enough to dream about men. She is comfortable being alone ...

The year is 158 AD, and the Roman Empire thrives under the 20th year of Emperor Antoninus Pius’s reign. Lucius, a Roman bathhouse architect, is now sixty years old and plagued with back pain. His wife Sats...