O-haru works at her father’s tea parlor. Pretty and sprightly as she is, she has never had leisure time and so her widowed father and the curious neighbors are anxious about her becoming a spinster. One day, a poor, masterless samurai named Sho-no-suke moves in Haru’s small terraced house. Haru’s father and the neighbors count on the new-comer bachelor as Haru’s future husband.