In Showa-era Tokyo, Japan’s first woman detective, Mitsuko Hoshino, goes on a company trip to a ski resort with her sidekick, department store heir Saku, only to meet more trouble! An old man they encountered at the resort goes missing, and an examination of his home reveals a bookcase stocked with women’s magazines?! With only one clue—two issues of a certain magazine are also missing—Mitsuko must solve the case, and confront both gender inequality and the extremes to which someone might go in order to live out their dreams!