Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway

## Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway A heartbroken salaryman takes in a high-school runaway he finds on the street, and their unlikely platonic cohabitation slowly helps two lost people heal. Walking home drunk after being rejected by the coworker he had loved for years, twenty-six-year-old salaryman Yoshida finds a high-school girl named Sayu sitting alone on the roadside. Unable to abandon a runaway to the streets, he lets her stay the night, and then, as it becomes clear she has nowhere to go, the days stretch into months. Sayu, who fled home and survived by trading her body for shelter, offers herself in return, but Yoshida firmly refuses, insisting she earn her keep with housework instead. Their careful, strictly platonic cohabitation gradually mends them both, confronting Sayu's trauma and Yoshida's loneliness. A thoughtful, bittersweet drama about kindness, boundaries, and rebuilding self-worth.