The Soup, One Morning

Kitagawa (Hiromasa Hirosue) suffers from a panic disorder and, unable to keep his job, begins to secretly frequent the seminars of a religious cult. His girlfriend, Shizu (Akie Namiki), makes every effort to bring him back to normalcy. But Kitagawa's illness cannot be cured, and he refuses to abandon the cult. Meanwhile, Shizu is forced to quit her own job when her company relocates, and her frustration escalates as she is unable to find a new job. All of these things take a toll on the couple´s relationship, and their separation eventually becomes inevitable.