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Kyoko's, a wheelchair-bound librarian, first meeting with her hairdresser leads to more encounters as Kyoko starts to like him because he treats her normally despite her condition.

Instead of leaning into heavy tragedy, this drama finds its heart in the quiet, refreshing normalcy of a budding romance. A hairdresser’s refusal to treat a wheelchair user as a patient or a victim turns a standard melodrama into something genuinely sweet.