Storyline: Wakana, 14, faces her mother and father quarreling ceaselessly with the latter always threatening to leave. Her father, Kosuke, falls in love with a younger woman and when she beomes pregnant, he leaves home and moves into a nearby apartment. Eventually Kosuke's young wife leaves him and leaves the baby behind for her mother, Harumi, to look after. Around this time Kosuke begins drinking heavily and disappears. Wakana decides to go and search for her father. Finally, she finds him in a hospital where he is being treated after being run down by a car. The family comes together again, but one month later Kosuke suddenly dies. As a junior high school student, Wakana has experienced so many things. Now she is ready to begin a new life.