In 1980, Ayuko is a new transfer student in Okayama from Tokyo. She doesn‘t have any friends and relies on her boyfriend Hideo who is a college student. Ayuko likes to draw a romance manga of herself and her boyfriend. Ayuko‘s classmate, Takemi, becomes a huge fan of Ayuko‘s manga and they become close friends. Due to an incident though, they drift apart. 30 years later, Ayuko is a professional manga artist and returns to Okayama to give a speech at her alma mater. While there, she’s reunited with Takemi who has become a teacher. Suddenly the friendship they both believed to have been long lost is rekindled in adulthood.