Kogureso Monogatari (Shodensha Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Kigure-so is a rundown, six-room apartment building built ten years ago, a five-minute walk from Setagaya-Daita, a station through which the Odakyu Line's express train passes. There, the old landlord Kigure, a college student Mitsuko, an office worker Kanzaki, and a flower store clerk Mayu live a peaceful life together. However, once they seek love, the anguish that each one of them is carrying becomes a painful sadness that seeps out of them. What soothes and heals them is the warmth of their neighbors, who begin to connect with them because of their cheap housing...

小田急線の急行通過駅・世田谷代田から徒歩五分、築ウン十年、全六室のぼろアパート木暮荘。そこでは老大家木暮と女子大生の光子、サラリーマンの神崎に花屋の店員繭の四人が、平穏な日々を送っていた。だが、一旦愛を求めた時、それぞれが抱える懊悩が痛烈な悲しみとなって滲み出す。それを和らげ癒すのは、安普請ゆえに繋がりはじめる隣人たちのぬくもりだった...。