Hatsuko, who dreamed of making clothes as a child, now works as a dressmaker and lives above a bakery that sells only anpan and cream buns. This short story portrays the monotony and solitude that settle over a life that has seemingly fulfilled its dream, with the humor of Kansai dialect woven through it.

Above a bakery that sells only anpan and cream buns, Hatsuko sits at her sewing machine alone once again.