After the divorce, the president's wife was impoverished

At the company's annual meeting, Nora introduces a man named Theo as the new Vice President, and every eye turns to Ethan. When a manager asks why Ethan was passed over, Nora calls him a cornerstone who performs best at the grassroots level. Seeing that Theo resembles Nora's late college love, Ethan tears off his ID badge and quits in front of everyone. Nora warns him not to come back if he walks out, but he leaves his wedding ring on the conference table and goes.

For years Ethan has been Nora's so-called husband, bound to her by their fathers' arrangement after his father saved hers. They never registered the marriage, and she always put the company first. Colleagues mock his middle-aged unemployment, and he resigns, packs his few belongings, and drinks alone in his rented place.

A young former tenant named Daphne finds him there and invites him to see the ocean, and together they talk from dawn till dusk, celebrating their freedom.