Convenience Store Woman

Furukura Keiko, a thirty-six-year-old woman, remains unmarried. After graduating from university, she did not seek employment and instead chose to work at a convenience store, a job she has held for eighteen years. Keiko has seen many employees come and go, and even the store manager has changed eight times. Every day, she eats the pre-packaged meals sold at the store, listens to the ka-ching of the cash register, looks at the clean store, and says, 'Welcome' to customers. She lives such a strangely peaceful life. Her family, colleagues, and friends find this baffling. Only Keiko understands that everything changes, and only the unchanging convenience store can provide her with comfort.Then one day, the otaku Shiraha enters her life, 'Living like this is so strange!' he says. Keiko begins to contemplate, is her life truly unusual?