دو برابر مخلوط / Mixed Doubles

تامیکو در دوران کودکی یک پینگ پونگ باز ماهر بوده اما در سن ۲۲ سالگی ورزش را کنار گذاشته. با مرگ مادری که به او بازی کردن را آموزش می‌داده، ورزش را فراموش می‌کند و یک زندگی معمولی را پی می‌گیرد. او پس از تجربه‌ی یک شکست عاطفی به زادگاهش بازمی‌گردد و دوباره تمرین پینگ پونگ را آغاز می‌کند...

Tamiko used to be a very good ping pong player as a child, but she is now twenty-eight years old and left the sport behind. Her mother Hanako had taught her how to play imposing discipline and regimen, but following the former's death the daughter had felt free by quitting the sport and instead leading an ordinary life. One of her co-workers Akihiko asks her to go steady one day, but soon sleeps with a pretty co-worker called Airi. Having lost her chance with this man she quits her job and returns to her hometown. Here her mother once owned a ping pong club. At the same time, the man she lost has joined the company's ping pong club prompting her to want to beat him. She begins to practice again.