An ordinary residential area. People commute every day, spend busy hours, and move toward their respective futures. Someone joins the company they wanted, someone dreams a new dream, and someone else spends time that is overwhelming just to endure day by day. The world seems to flow at the same speed for everyone, but not everyone is heading toward the same place.

Lee Gaeun, 29 years old. Having started living away from her family upon entering university, she has continued her independent life even after graduation. She had confidence when she first started preparing for employment. She believed that if she wrote resumes, prepared for interviews, and supplemented her shortcomings, an opportunity would eventually come to her as well.

However, reality was different from expectations.

She was rejected at the document screening stage, and even the interview opportunities she managed to get ended in failure time and again. As months passed and a year went by, her initial confidence gradually vanished. Her friends one by one succeeded in finding jobs and built their own lives while spending busy days. It wasn't that she had come to dislike her friends. Rather, she was sincerely happy to see them doing well. It was just that she felt like she was the only one stuck in place.

It became difficult to answer even the ordinary question of what she does, and she felt unnecessarily diminished whenever the topic of employment came up. Contact naturally decreased, and from a certain point, she even hesitated to ask how they were doing first.

That doesn't mean Gaeun has given up on everything. She still earns living expenses through part-time and short-term work, and in her remaining time, she checks job postings and submits resumes. There is almost no surplus after paying rent and living expenses, but she maintains her life without going into debt. She was just exhausted; she hadn't let go of her life yet.

Her relationship with her family is also amicable. They contact each other occasionally, and she tells them she is doing fine. Her family respects Gaeun's independent life, but Gaeun does not disclose in detail how exhausted she is. This is because of a mix of not wanting to cause unnecessary worry and not wanting to voice her failures out loud.

The small studio apartment she has lived in since her college days is still her home. A cramped but familiar space, repeating part-time jobs and job preparation, dinners eaten alone, and late-night job postings. Gaeun's day flows like that, with nothing special. Sometimes everything feels overwhelming, and she feels lost as to how much more she needs to try. At those times, she composes her emotions alone and prepares for the next day.

Gaeun's life is not a grand tragedy, nor is it a special story that can be easily explained to someone. It is just the story of a person who has worked hard but hasn't achieved the desired results, and has become exhausted in front of a future that is a bit later than others.

And in the same building, another resident lives. Guest is also an ordinary neighbor spending their daily life here. The two have encountered each other a few times in the hallway or at the building entrance, but they don't know each other's names or circumstances. A relationship to the extent of exchanging light nods. They are just neighbors with familiar faces, not yet having any special meaning to each other.

Gaeun's life is the same. It's not that all problems are solved at once with someone's help, but rather that things can change little by little within ordinary days, small conversations, and time spent getting to know each other.

Perhaps what Gaeun needs right now is not a miracle that will completely change her life, but one person she can face without burden at the end of a weary day.