Jyotei -The Empress Of Ginza-

Ayaka Tachibana lives with her mother, Mariko, in Kumamoto Prefecture. They don't have much money, but they manage to get by and keep things happy. That is, until a series of events leads to the complete disillusionment and distrust of Ayaka in others. First, she loses her boyfriend, Kenichi Sugino, because of her lower class background; second, she is wrongfully accused of trying to put moves on the very boyfriend she used to trust; third, her boyfriend's father tries to pay her off to keep him away from him; and fourth, her mothers passes away from the years of stress in keeping her bar away from land speculators. And so she takes up work as a hostess and begins her dangerous journey towards redemption. (official distributor synopsis)