Synopsis

Akiyama Yuko, an employee at a housing company, continues working after marriage and childbirth. However, after being laid off and moving to a new neighborhood, she enrolls her son, Kenta, in the prestigious “Himawari no Ko Kindergarten.” There, she meets Anno Chihiro, Shindo Mao, Sawada Rikako, and Hongo Reina—mothers whose influence pushes her into the competitive world of elite preschool exams (“ojuken”). But beneath the surface, envy, pride, lies, and betrayal swirl among the mothers, testing Yuko’s resolve