Love is over.

A little girl named Fumika is told to stop poking a dead bird she finds in the street by her mother. (This is not the Fumika, mind you.)
Later, she is shown playing a handheld electronic game (Let's call it notgameboy for now.) during a gathering of her mom's friends when she gets bored and goes outside to find a gloomy-looking man.

Listening to Linkin Park
The man's name is Hibiyo Takehiko, the son of one of little Fumika's mother's friends. All four ladies in the group decide to go out to eat, leaving little Fumika in Takehiko's care. However, little Fumika's stomach begins growling soon after, and Takehiko takes her out to eat as well.

That's a lot of desserts.
After the meal, Takehiko and little Fumika go around town for a day of fun, although little Fumika's enjoyment will come at the cost of Takehiko's. It is revealed that Takehiko is unemployed, he recently quit the game design company he worked at. Everyone is confused why, and only Takehiko knows the answer: he has appendix cancer and doesn't expect to live long. Following this painful reminder, Takehiko is assaulted by two hooligans. No relief in sight when the police chase the hooligans off; Takehiko comes under arrest for 'kidnapping' little Fumika.

No relief in sight.

Because he's unemployed, the police get the wrong assumptions about Takehiko.
At the station, little Fumika meets the Fumika, the latter who just delivered a shigofumi to one of the policewomen. Takehiko receives a call from Ueno-san, his co-worker/friend since college, but when he cannot tell Ueno-san why he quit, Ueno hangs up saying, 'I thought we were friends.'
When Takehiko is finally released, he calls his mother, who insists on pushing him to have a job. This angers him, since she cares more for her status than him.

Oh lawl.
On the way home, his car breaks down (This really isn't his day.), and seeing that it's beyond his expertise, he tells little Fumika to stay put and goes off to find help. Walking along the bridge, Takehiko's thoughts fall into despair - he's lost his job, friends, family. As the camera ominously focuses on the water below, little Fumika pitter-patters over to save the day. She felt lonely, so she wants to walk with Takehiko.

It's dangerous outside. Take this with you.
When little Fumika pulls out the notgameboy and shows Takehiko the game, it's 'The Friends of the Forest', which Takehiko was responsible for creating. He reminisces about his life, from when he was a child who had a talent for art to meeting his friend in college to joining the game company. Through it all, he realizes he just wanted people to be happy with his drawing.
His reverie is interrupted by oncoming traffic, and a truck barrels toward them. After pushing little Fumika out of the way, he realizes that his wish has been granted through little Fumika, and he (assumedly) dies happy.

q_q
At the funeral, it's revealed that Takehiko had appendix cancer, and everyone posthumously remembers him as a good person. Fumika shows up to give little Fumika a shigofumi, which is a drawing of little Fumika sent from Takehiko. Continually resetting her notgameboy, little Fumika asks the Fumika cannot see Takehiko anymore. Fumika replies that is what it means to die.
The episode ends with Fumi opening her eyes.

=oo

Thoughts:
For half the episode I thought that little Fumika was Fumika, but they really do lead you to believe it. I definitely shed a tear during this episode, Takehiko was driven deeper and deeper into despair, but right when his spirits are lifted, he dies. I don't quite get why little Fumika kept resetting her notgameboy at the end, though I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the questions she asks the Fumika.
Lastly, Fumi opens her eyes. Oh shi-