Synopsis

Sato Tomoko is an ordinary housewife who lives with her husband Kohei and young son Shunpei in a cramped housing complex. She has to work part-time to supplement the household income. Nonetheless, they are a loving, happy family. Tomoko wants to live a happier life with small luxuries. She has led a very complicated life up until now. Her parents disappeared one after another. So she dropped out of high school and worked in many part-time jobs. Tomoko wants to let her son eat genuine steak, take him to and from nursery school on an electric bicycle … … But Tomoko and Kohei never last long in any job. They instinctively resist unreasonable duties and quickly end up getting fired. At one point, both husband and wife lose their jobs at the same time. One day, Tomoko searches for a new job on the internet but has difficulty finding one. She is in her 40s, a high school dropout and has no qualifications. How is she to get a job? Then she suddenly looks up “city council member” because she saw a city council member who embezzled funds for political activities in the news. This is how she learns that the election rate for a member of Aoba City Council where she lives is more than 80%. This is a high probability compared to her finding work. The annual salary of a city council member is a dream to Tomoko. Equating huge pay with family happiness, the foolhardy Tomoko immediately declares to Kohei that she is standing in the election. Husband and wife withdraw their savings as the deposit required to run for the city council and register her candidacy at the electoral committee. However, the election race has already started. Tomoko and Kohei observe the campaign speech of a current city council member, Isobe Shinzo. Then a woman seethes that Isobe’s words are all lies. She is Hirata Kazumi, a friend whose child attends the same nursery school as Shunpei. When Tomoko tells Kazumi about her candidacy, she leaves speechless. Besides Isobe, there are other candidates in the election race such as Todo Makoto who comes from a long line of politicians … …