After a heated argument with her mother, Keito runs away from home without knowing where to go. When she helps an old woman to carry her bags home, the woman offers to put her up in one of her rooms. Keito accepts and starts to pick up the pieces of her life. When shes not drawing her own comic, which features a black jazz singer named Angie, the young woman works at a record shop. Thats where she meets and falls in love with Niki, an attractive trumpeter in a funk band. They sleep with each other. Unfortunately for Keito, Niki then explains that shes not interested in a serious relationship, but Keito is not willing to give up that easily...