A boy working a shoe store counter becomes the quiet center of two girls' unspoken longing, each unable to say what matters most. One has learned not to trust; the other has never learned how to speak. Christmas becomes the frame where all three finally move toward each other, not because the holiday fixes anything, but because one ordinary shift decides to stop waiting. The romance lands because nobody here is loud about wanting, they're just breaking their own silence.

Nobumasa works part-time at a shoe store, and that is where he meets Mizuki. Her abusive family has left her unable to trust anyone. Nobumasa has no idea that another girl, Seiko, has feelings for him that she cannot bring herself to express. Set around Christmas, this single-episode OVA from 1991 is a quiet romantic drama adapted from a shoujo short story first published in Margaret. It centers on a young woman carrying deep emotional wounds.