This award winning lesbian drama constitutes a touching and moving love story revolving around the love affair between two college students - Eri, whose father and mother are divorced, given the fact that they decided to marry out of societal pressure during the time of Victorian morals, where homosexuals were the subject of extreme discrimination as homosexuality went against the norms of society, and, resultant of that, caved in to pressure to engage in a heterosexual relationship and tie the knot in marriage and father a child, in a society where marriage and having a family were terminal values, whom they, nevertheless, treasured and loved beyond all measure, from whom they kept their homosexual tendencies a secret for fear of estranging themselves from their daughter only to discover that she was having an affair with Ichiko, and, having so discovered, Eri's father - with whom she was staying, given the fact that he had won custody over her following the divorce, who, himself, was having an affair with another man (the affair of which he kept a secret until he discovers the fact that Eri was a lesbian, and, having done so, blurts out his and his ex-wife's deep harbored secret, and encourage her relationship with Ichiko, and arrange for her to meet his lover, under the latter's encouragement), resultant of which, Eri and Ichiko ardently pursue their relationship and, while at a beach, encounter Eri's father's college professor - who herself was a lesbian and having an affair with another women (also a college professor), and, being gay, also encourage Eri in her relationship with Ichiko (whose father, and mother have successful careers as lawyers and harbor unrealistic expectations of their daughter by expecting her to walk in their footsteps and establish a career for herself as a lawyer, and. given the strained relationship between Ichiko’s father and her, spurs her to spite her father by pursuing the career of his choice but to engage in a different field of practice, and having performed badly in her last exam, pressurizes her to take her studies more seriously, and, caving to unrealistic parental expectations, inducing Ichiko to voice and carry through her intentions to stop seeing Eri while concentrating on her studies, resultant of which, Eri finds herself heartbroken and decides to forgo her relationship with Ichiko, only to discover Ichiko realizing that she should not cave in to parental expectations nor to societal pressure and treasure the genuine person who she is and be herself and to love her life, and, in so doing, decide to become a writer and to commit her life story in a novel which not only makes its way to the bestseller list but also wins several awards, thereby, legitimizing her choice of career and her decision to be herself.