Shinkai Yuki has devoted his life to one goal: making his little sister happy, which requires money, which requires work. He takes every part-time job he can find and plans to move straight into full-time employment after graduation. Then his sister delivers a condition: if he skips university, she will too. Yuki cannot allow that. Under sudden pressure to fund tuition for both of them, he signs up to be a rental temp worker — a job listing that promises high pay, fulfilling hands-on work, and a general air of suspicious vagueness. A classmate promptly requests him as a pretend boyfriend. More requests follow: a paramour, a friend, an older brother figure. These false relationships begin as paid transactions. Where they end is a different question.