You are a college drop-out, wannabe manga artist, who exiles himself in the countryside with the intent of reclaiming the onsen of your grandfather, left to decay. However, between your incapacity to settle a publishing contract, a hot-headed tenant who refuses to pay her rent, and a growing addiction to alcohol and melancholy, your getaway from the real world is gradually shaping up into yet another failure. It is only then, that an old lost acquaintance resurfaces, begging you to hide a young girl with pointy ears from mysterious wrongdoers...