The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky 2012 Middle aged Satomi is married to infertile Keiichi and pressured by Machiko, her dominant mother in law to give her a grandchild She seeks distraction in manga romance and meets the student Takumi at an event for anime fans Soon they start a passionate relationship like Anzu and Muramasa, her favorite cartoon characters Takumi soon becomes her escape from her boring life while taking an infertility treatment forced by mother in law who provides them a financial support Meanwhile, her husband and his mother begins to notice a video on the Internet which was taped by herself secretly where she has sex with her teenage lover Takumis best friend Fukuda lives with his senile grandmother after his mother abandoned him and can just make ends meet with a number of side jobs His situation becomes dire when a usurer demands that he pays his mothers debts