46-year-old eccentric Honami Takashi is an associate professor who teaches maths at university. He is not good at speaking and is unpopular with students. His wife Nao has grown disenchanted with him and leaves home with their child. At a lesson open to high school students, Honami gives a lecture without the spirit of service and eventually gets ordered to go for speaking classes by the dean. He reluctantly participates but gets into an unexpected quarrel with the instructor Ezaki Kyoko and has to be pacified by her boss Sakura Munechika. The two of them part acrimoniously. However, several days later Honami and Kyoko meet each other again at an unlikely place. That is a small recital class on the edge of town. Together with the mysterious Kyoko and his classmates, Honami begins lessons to discover his new self. |