Mitsuyoshi Tada has never been concerned about love, and when the ambitious photographer starts his second year of high school, he couldn't be more unconcerned. Things may change, though, once he meets Teresa Wagner, a bright and effervescent foreigner who he meets while photographing a cherry blossom tree. Nonetheless, once she requests that he photograph her, the two quickly become estranged... just to run into each other twice more on the same day! Tada meets Teresa just as she is caught in a violent storm and asks her to dry off at his family's coffee business. She reveals that she got separated from her traveling partner, Alexandra "Alec" Magritte, a no-nonsense redhead. When Alec and Teresa reconcile in the near future,