"Love is often found in unlikely places, but could there be anywhere less likely than the Nakano Thrift Shop? Inside is a jumble of bric-a-brac presided over by enigmatic ladies' man Mr Nakano, and frequented by a host of curious customers - all with their own dramas and tales of loss. Yet it is here that Hitomi, a restless young woman, meets Takeo, whose abrupt and taciturn manner she finds, to her consternation, increasingly disarming..." -- back cover.