Until one day an elderly, handicapped woman enters the shop. With only the blossoming of the cherry trees to mark the passing of time, he spends his days listlessly filling the pastries. Instead, he works in a confectionery shop selling dorayaki, a type of pancake filled with a sweet paste made of red beans. Sentaro has failed: he has a criminal record, drinks too much, and hasn’t managed to fulfil his dream of becoming a writer.
If she will make the bean paste, sales will go up and he'll be able to pay off his debt to the new owner much faster. But, then she brings him some of her bean paste to taste and he's sold. Tokue has strangely twisted hands and he's not even sure if she could do a job if he hired her, although he could use the help. Sentaro has been using pre-made bean paste in the dorayaki he sells when elderly Tokue comes in asking him for a job.
The new owner is the previous owner's wife. Sentaro spent a couple years in jail and was offered the job by a man who is now deceased, who paid off Sentaro's debt. Sentaro works in a confectionary shop selling dorayaki, a Japanese pancake filled with red bean paste.
Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa is the story of a cook named Sentaro, an older women named Tokue, and a teenage school girl named Wakana.
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