剧情：东京某东老旧的公寓内，生活着胖乎乎的涂装工人福田辰男（大岛美幸 饰），他长相平平，但乐观向上，在工地为伙伴们所信任，在公寓则为养着蟒蛇的邻居马渊和曾有过偷窃前科的青年调解纠纷。不过阿福也有致命之处，他不擅长应付女性。好友岛木拓郎（荒川良良 饰）一直为阿福的爱情担心，为此不断张罗着为他介绍对象。烦恼的阿福为此和朋友吵架，会面时则有意无意忽视约会女孩的存在。在他看来，也许和朋友们玩耍放风筝才是最快乐的事。直到某天，美丽女孩杉浦千穗（水川麻美 饰）找上门来。 千穗本来供职一家一流企业，但为了摄影梦想而毅然辞职。遭受一连串挫折的她，偶然想起曾和老同学阿福之间的一段往事…… 32-year-old Tatsuo Fukuda, nickname "Fuku-chan" (Miyuki Oshima), is a painter who lives in a run-down apartment complex called Fukufuku Flats. He has been a resident ever since he moved to Tokyo after graduating from junior high school in rural Tochigi Prefecture, and has held the same job the whole time. He spends his days working up a sweat painting buildings, his nights mediating disputes between the other denizens of Fukufuku Flats, and his days off flying handmade kites down by the riverside. Fuku-chan is a popular guy who treats everyone equally and with kindness, but romance is his Achilles heel, which causes him to totally mess up a date arranged by his workmate Shimacchi (Yoshiyoshi Arakawa). One day, an unfamiliar woman turns up at Fukufuku Flats. When she tells Fuku-chan her name, he is astonished. It is Chiho, his first love from his junior high school days who he has not seen for around 20 years, and she has come to apologize for something that happened in their past. As Fuku-chan allows himself to get caught up in Chiho's quest to become a photographer, he begins to fall in love all over again with this woman who was responsible for the traumatizing incident that led to his fear of women...