Kanseun, an irritable music student living on a space station, struggles with her work and avoids responding to her older father's letters because she isn't fluent in their ancestral language. When a strange, cheerful creature who calls himself a foxwife rings her doorbell and tells her he's seeking employment (he can clean, cook, do dishes, and disarm bombs), Kanseun is initially doubtful, but soon warms to him. The foxwife helps tidy her and her roommates' spaces, fulfilling tasks that don't actually have to be done by hand due to advanced technology. Kanseun discusses the foxwife situation with her roommate, expressing how she feels the foxwife deserves better and should find another place to live. Kanseun panics when she soon realizes the foxwife overheard her conversation, and she witnesses him leaving. She spends the whole day looking for him but to no avail. When she wakes up early the next day, she finds the foxwife back at home, in her kitchen. They exchange no words with each other and accept each other's company. Two weeks later, Kanseun receives another letter from her father, and she discovers that the foxwife can read and write in her ancestral language. She asks if he can teach her so that she can finally write her father back, and he agrees.